The Birth of the Blues (Live 1961) - Lionel Hampton (莱尼尔·汉普顿)-歌词

The Birth of the Blues (Live 1961) - Lionel Hampton (莱尼尔·汉普顿)

Oh they say some people along ago

Were searching for a different tune

One that they could croon

As only they can

They only had the rhythm

So they started swingin' to and fro

They didn't know just what to use

And that is how the blues

Really began

They heard the breeze

In the trees

Singing weird melodies

And they named that

The start of the blues

And from a jail

Came a wail

Of a down-hearted frail

And they played that

As a part of the blues

From a whippoorwill

Out on a hill

They took a new note

Pushed it through a horn

Till it was a worn

Into a blue note

And then they nursed it

Rehearsed it

And gave out the hew

That the south land

Gave birth to the blues

From a whippoorwill

Out on a hill

They took a new note

Pushed it through a horn

Till it was a worn

Into a blue note

And then they nursed it

Rehearsed it

And gave out the hew

That the south land

Gave birth to the blues

And then they nursed it

Rehearsed it

Gave out the news

That the south land

To give birth to the blues