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Artist: Hank Snow
Canonical path: /hank-snow/birth-of-the-blues
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Birth Of The Blues
Read Birth Of The Blues lyrics by Hank Snow on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Birth Of The Blues
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They heard the breeze in the trees making weird melodies
And they made that the start of the blues
And from a jail came the wail of a downhearted 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 till it was worn into a blue note
And then they nursed it rehearsed it and gave out the news
That the southland gave birth of the blues that the southland gave birth of the blues
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Hank Snow performs "Birth Of The Blues", and this lyric page sits inside the Hank Snow catalog on LyroVerse.
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