Birth Of The Blues

McGuire Sisters

Written by B.G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson. Lew Brown

Key of G · Chords: I II III IV V VI

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

Verse 2

                         D7
And from a jail came the wail
     G            C
Of a down-hearted frail
         D7                         G
And they played that as part of the blues

Verse 3

                           B7
From a whippoorwill out on a hill

Verse 4

They took a new note
                    E7                         A7     D7
Pushed it through a horn till it was worn into a blue note

Verse 5

                     G                 D7
And then they nursed it they rehearsed it
    G        C
And gave out the news
         D7                          G
That the Southland gave birth to the blues