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Birth of The Blues\r\nrecorded by the McGuire Sisters\r\nwritten by B.G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson. Lew Brown\r\n[verse 1]\r\nG<\/span>                            D7<\/span>\r\nThey heard the breeze in the trees\r\n        G<\/span>         C<\/span>\r\nSinging weird melodies\r\n         D7<\/span>                         G<\/span>\r\nAnd they made that the start of the blues\r\n \r\n \r\n                         D7<\/span>\r\nAnd from a jail came the wail\r\n     G<\/span>            C<\/span>\r\nOf a down-hearted frail\r\n         D7<\/span>                         G<\/span>\r\nAnd they played that as part of the blues\r\n \r\n       B7<\/span>\r\nFrom a whippoorwill out on a hill\r\n \r\n\r\nThey took a new note\r\n                    E7<\/span>                    A7<\/span>     D7<\/span>\r\nPushed it through a horn till it was worn into a blue note\r\n \r\n              G<\/span>              D7<\/span>\r\nAnd then they nursed it they rehearsed it\r\n    G<\/span>            C<\/span>\r\nAnd gave out the news\r\n         D7<\/span>                          G<\/span>\r\nThat the Southland gave birth to the blues<\/pre>\n
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Birth of The Blues\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n \r\nA<\/span>      Ab<\/span>   G<\/span>  C<\/span>                   Dm<\/span>\r\nThey heard the breeze in the trees,\r\nG<\/span>        C<\/span>        E<\/span>     F<\/span>         D<\/span>\r\nsinging weird melodies\r\n \r\n                G<\/span>\r\nAnd they made that, the start of the\r\n C<\/span>          Ab<\/span>     G<\/span>\r\nblues\r\n \r\n G<\/span>  Gb<\/span>   F<\/span>   C<\/span>                  Dm<\/span>  G<\/span>\r\nAnd from a    jail came the wail  of a\r\nC<\/span>      E<\/span>         F<\/span>\r\ndownhearted frail\r\n \r\nD<\/span>            G<\/span>\r\nAnd they played that as part of the\r\n\r\nC<\/span>            Fm<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\nblues\r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\n \r\nC<\/span>      E<\/span>\r\nFrom a whippoorwill, out on a hill they took a new note\r\n \r\n                                A<\/span>                           Am<\/span>\r\nPushed it through a horn till it was born into a\r\nD<\/span>                G<\/span>\r\nblue note\r\n \r\n \r\nG<\/span>    Gb<\/span>  F<\/span>     C<\/span>         Am<\/span>     Dm<\/span>   G<\/span>      C<\/span>\r\nAnd then they nursed it, rehearsed it and gave\r\n    E<\/span>   F<\/span>          E<\/span>\r\nout the news\r\n \r\n              G<\/span>\r\nThat the Southland, gave birth to the\r\nC<\/span>            F<\/span>         C<\/span>\r\nblues\r\n \r\n[Bridge 2]\r\nC<\/span>      E<\/span>\r\nFrom a whippoorwill, out on a hill they took a new note\r\n \r\n                                A                   Am\r\nPushed it through a horn till it was born into a\r\nD                G\r\nblue note\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n        Gb    F   C          Am     Dm     G    C\r\nAnd then they nursed it, rehearsed it and gave\r\n    E   F\r\nout the news\r\n \r\n              G\r\nThat the Southland, gave birth to the\r\nC          B       Bb      A\r\nblues\r\n \r\n               D                G\r\nThat the Southland, gave birth to the\r\n     C                F      Fm    C     G     C\r\nblues<\/pre>\n
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Birth of The Blues recorded by the McGuire Sisters written by B.G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson. Lew Brown [verse 1] G D7 They heard the breeze in the trees G C Singing weird melodies D7 G And they made that the start of the blues D7 And from a jail came … CLICK TO VIEW SONGBirth of the Blues<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28685,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/28685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}