Oh! They say some people long ago
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Were searching for a different tune
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One that they could croon
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As only they can
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They only had the rhythm so
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They started swaying to and fro
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They didnt know just what they had
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And that is how the blues really began:
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They heard the breeze in the trees
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Singing weird melodies
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And they made that
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The start of the blues
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And from a jail came the wail
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Of a down hearted frail
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And they played that
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As part of the blues
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From a whippoorwill out on a hill
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They took a new note
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Pushed it through a horn
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til it was born into a blue note
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And then they nursed it, rehearsed it
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And gave out the news
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That the southland
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Gave birth to the blues!
