Lyrics:

From a whippoorwill
Way up on a hill
They took a new note
Pushed it through a horn
Until it was worn
Into a blue note

And then they nursed it
They rehearsed it
And then sent out that news
That the Southland
gave birth to the blues

They nursed it
And they rehearsed it
And they sent out that news
That the Southland,
they gave birth to the blues