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Della Reese Lyrics for Song: The Birth Of The Blues
 Lyrics for Album: And That Reminds Me / Date With Della Reese [1998]
 
 
 
 36266>Oh, they say some people long ago
 
 Were searching for a different tune
 
 One that they could croon
 
 As only they can
 
 They only had the rhythm
 
 So they started swaying to and fro
 
 They didn't know just what to use
 
 That is how the blues really began
 
 They heard the breeze in the trees
 
 Singing weird melodies
 
 And they made that the start of the blues
 
 
 
 And from a jail came the wail
 
 Of a down-hearted frail
 
 And they played that
 
 As part of the blues
 
 From a whippoorwill
 
 Out on a hill
 
 They took a new note
 
 Pushed it through a horn
 
 Til it was worn
 
 Into a blue note
 
 And then they nursed it, rehearsed it
 
 And gave out the news
 
 That the southland gave birth to the blues!
 
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| Album Lyrics: And That Reminds Me / Date With Della Reese [1998] |  
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 "And That Reminds Me / Date With Della Reese [1998]"
 
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