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Birth of the Blues [Performed Live On the Ed Sullivan Show 12/26/54]
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Cab Calloway
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Oh! they say some people long ago
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Were searching for a different tune,
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One that they could croon
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As only they can.
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They only had the rhythm so
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They started swaying to and fro.
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They didn't know just what they had
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And that is how the blues really began:
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They heard the breeze in the trees
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Singing weird melodies
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And they made that
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The start of the blues.
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And from a jail came the wail
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Of a down hearted frail,
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And they played that
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As part of the blues.
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From a whippoorwill out on a hill,
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They took a new note,
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Pushed it through a horn
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'til it was born into a blue note.
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And then they nursed it, rehearsed it,
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And gave out the news
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That the southland
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Gave birth to the blues!
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