Chords for Louis Armstrong Benny Goodman Danny Kaye Laurindo de Almeida Nestor Amaral in A SONG IS BORN 2

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I may have just [N] a little more time.
Gentlemen, if you please.
_ _ I think we're just about ready to record. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ The _ Totten Musical Encyclopedia, recording number _ 684J,
illustrating chapters 22 to 29 in volume 11, _
The History of Jazz.
_ From Africa came the first musical instrument, a drum.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The hollow trunk of a tree or [B] a taut animal hide
supplied the rhythm or beat.
_ [Db] To the basic rhythm [Abm] was added the human voice. _ _ _ _ _
_ Oh, [E] oh, _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] oh, oh, oh.
Next, the first [Em] wind instrument, the shepherd's flute. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ The basic [E] beat of the tom-tom and the same thematic strain
of the chant that [B] was carried across oceans
and contained an early Spanish music
after the invention of the guitar.
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_ _ _ _ [G] It spread to countries which shared the Spanish [Ab] language,
Cuba, [G] West India, and South America
where the rhythm or beat assumed a new form of expression. _ _ _
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The ever-widening cycle finally reached the shores
of southern [Em] United States where the beat was momentarily lost, but the melody was [G] woven
into pure Negro _ spiritual.
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Mockingbird _ _ _ _ [Cm]
sang _ [Bb] _ [Eb] and _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] the _ song _ was _ _
[Bb] woe.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Mockingbird _ [G] _
sang _ _ [Cm] and the _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ [E] song was woe.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ Then the beat returned.
Well the _ mockingbird, _ _ _ _ [E] mockingbird, mockingbird. _ _ _ _
The Lord looked down and he gave the word.
And the angels put the song in the _ mockingbird.
When man was born he liked what he heard.
And sang to the Lord with the mockingbird.
Singing _ loud, _ hey!
_ Well he sang to the Lord with the mockingbird.
_ Praise _ be.
[B] _ And the good Lord liked everything [E] he heard.
_ [Eb] _ _
They _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ took the tune and the [Bbm] word _ right from the _ [F] mockingbird.
_ [Db] That's [Ebm] how [C] a song [Gbm] _ [Bb] was born.
[Eb] _ _ [Db] And then the [Eb] soft [Fm] evening breeze _ [Gm]
hummed [Fm] through the willow tree.
_ That's [Bbm] how a song _ [Ab] was [Db] born.
_ _ The tingling _ rain from [G] the [D] sky [Cm] became _ a lullaby.
And [Fm] the blues _ must have [G] _ [Bbm] come from a sigh.
_ _ And [Db] when two hearts beat in [Ab] time, _ _ [E] blue bells [Fm] began to chime. _
[Bbm] That's how _ a [Eb] song [Abm] was born.
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _
They took a beat and made it real. _
They took a beat and made it real.
_ [G] _ [F] _
_ [Db] _ Now we got a soft voice.
_ [F] That's more girl [Bbm] in our home. _
_ [Gb] _ Let's hear, _ let's hear, [Db] _ let's hear how jazz was born. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] One, two, three, four. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [Dm] _ They [Em] took a [C] weak jungle beat [G] [A] and brought it to Basin Street.
[F] And that's how [G] _
[Fm] jazz was born.
[G] _ And [C] then someone played a wail [B] all [E] up and down [Am] the scale.
[F] And that's how jazz was [G] born.
[Am] They simply played what they liked _ [Em] as long as it would fit.
_ [Am] If it just had a [A] beat, that was it.
[G] _ And when [Am] a horn gave a [C] scream, they took [F] it as [Gbm] a theme.
[C] _
[F] And that's how [C] jazz was born.
[Eb] Yeah.
[Db] Ha ha. _ _ _
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[Dbm] _ [Ab] _ [Db] _ Ooh. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] Ooh. _ _
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Ooh. Ooh.
[Dbm] Ooh. _ _ _ _
_ [Db] Ooh. _ _ _ _ _
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Ooh. _ _ _ _ _ _
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