Hank Snow - Birth Of The Blues Lyrics

They heard the breeze in the trees making weird melodies

And they made that the start of the blues

And from a jail came the wail of a downhearted frail

And they played that as part of the blues

From a whippoorwill out on a hill they took a new note

Pushed it through a horn till it was worn into a blue note

And then they nursed it rehearsed it and gave out the news

That the southland gave birth of the blues that the southland gave birth of the blues