[00:03.56]These are the blues
[00:09.58]Nothing but blues
[00:18.04]Oh, they say some people long ago
[00:29.99]Were searching for a diffrent tune
[00:33.97]One that they could croon
[00:37.31]As only they can
[00:42.22]They only had the rhythm
[00:45.09]So they started swaying to and fro
[00:55.12]They didn't know just what to use
[00:59.59]That is how the blues really began
[01:08.03]They heard the breeze in the trees
[01:19.21]Singing weird melodies
[01:25.67]And they made that the start of the blues
[01:36.53]And from a jail came the wail
[01:46.02]Of a down-hearted frail
[01:51.85]And they played that
[01:56.81]As part of the blues
[02:04.20]From a whippoorwill
[02:08.34]Out on a hill
[02:10.88]They took a new note
[02:15.81]Pushed it through a horn
[02:20.24]Until it was worn
[02:23.10]Into a blue note
[02:27.80]And then they nursed it,
[02:37.05]They rehearsed it
[02:39.84]And then sent out that news
[02:45.70]That the Southland gave birth to the blues!
[02:59.24]They nursed it
[03:01.97]And they rehearsed it
[03:05.31]That the Southland they gave birth to the blues!