Chords for The Birth Of The Blues

_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] Oh, _ _ they say [B] some people long [A#] ago _ _
Were looking [Fm] for a different [G] tune
[Fm] One that they [G] could prove
[G#] As only [G] they [C] can
_ _ [B] _ [G] They only hear _ [C] them so
_ _ They [B] started swaying to and fro
_ _ [Gm] They [Fm] didn't know just [G] what to use
[Fm] But this is [G] how the blues [Fm] really _ [C] _ began _
_ _ _ This is the way the blues began
_ _ _ _ [G] _
[C#] They _ _ _ heard the _
[C] breeze [A] through [F] the trees
[C] _
Singing weird _ [F] melodies
And they named that [Dm] _ [Em] just the [C] start of the blues
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ Then [C] from a jail [Am] there came a [A] whale
From a down [C] _ _ [Am] parted [D] trail
And they [G] played _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [C] the [Dm] blues
[C] _ _ From a whippoorwill [G] sitting high on a [F#] hill
[G#m] They took a new [E] note
And they [Bm] pushed it through [A] a heart
Until it was what?
[F#] A head [Bm] to a blue [Am] note
[B] _ [A] And then [Cm] they nursed [C#m] it, yeah, [Am] rehearsed [C] it
And then gave [Am] out the [D] news
That the [G] Southland _ [G]
really [C] gave birth to the blues
Through a _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [B] big razzin' [E] new note
And they [Bm] pushed it through a heart
[C#m] Until it was [F#] what?
A head to [D] a blue [Am] note
_ [D#] And [D] then they [Am] nursed it, [A] go, rehearsed [F#] it
And [G] then [C] gave out the [Am] news
That the [F] Southland [G] _ _ gave birth to the [D] blues
_ [A] _ And [Dm] rehearsed _ [D#] _ [C] it, and gave out the news
[D] _ _ [F#] That [G] gave birth, the birth to [C] the blues
[F] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _