BSQ Birth of the Blues Lyrics

(You know that I) I asked my Pappy and he said he didn't know (no, no)
My Mammy said she couldn't tell me and so
I started asking everyone just how the blues began
But no one could confirm it, a mystery they term it
Until one day I asked an old man (a righteous old man)
And he said, son, here's how dem blues (really began)
They heard the breeze in the trees
Singing weird melodies
And they made that (in 4 flats) the start of the blues

And from a the jail came the wail (the wail)
Of a down-hearted frail
And they played that, yes, as part of the blues (the lowdown blues)

From a whippoorwill high on that hill
They took a new note (new note)
Pushed it through a horn till it was worn into a blue note

And then they nursed it, they rehearsed it
And gave out the news
That the Southland (that southern land)
Gave birth to the blues (out came the blues)

From a whippoorwill high on a hill
Came a new note
And they pushed it through a horn till it was worn into a blue note

Don't you know they nursed it, they rehearsed it
And then, then, then, then
They released the news
They shared their news
That the Southland (that southern land)
Gave birth to the blues
Oh yeah, the Southland (some righteous old man)
Gave birth to the (blues) those lowdown blues
(those lowdown blues)
Those lowdown (those dirty lowdown) blues
Those lowdown blues