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Artist/Band: Della Reese
Lyrics for Song: The Birth Of The Blues
Lyrics for Album: And That Reminds Me / Date With Della Reese [1998]



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!


Album Lyrics: And That Reminds Me / Date With Della Reese [1998]


Della Reese
"And That Reminds Me / Date With Della Reese [1998]"


1. The Birth Of The Blues
2. The More I See You