St. Louis Blues

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[Verse]
 * I hate to see de ev'nin' sun go down
 * Hate to see de evenin' sun go down
 * Cause my baby, he done lef dis town


 * Feelin' tomorrow lak Ah feel today
 * Feel tomorrow lak Ah feel today
 * I'll pack my trunk, make ma get away

[Bridge]
 * St. Louis woman wid her diamon' rings
 * Pulls dat man roun' by her apron strings
 * 'Twant for powder an' for store bought hair
 * De man I love would not gone nowhere

[Chorus]
 * Got de St. Louis Blues jes as blue as Ah can be
 * Dat man got a heart lak a rock cast in the sea
 * Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me
 * Doggone it!


 * I loves dat man lak a school boy loves his pie
 * Lak a Kentucky Col'nel loves his mint an' rye
 * I'll love ma baby till the day Ah die

[Verse]
 * Been to de Gypsy to get ma fortune tole
 * To de Gypsy done got ma fortune tole
 * Cause I'm most wile 'bout ma Jelly Roll


 * Gypsy done tole me, "don't you wear no black"
 * Yes she done tole me "don't you wear no black"
 * Go to St. Louis, you can win him back

[Bridge]
 * Help me to Cairo, make St. Louis by maself
 * Git to Cairo, find ma ole friend Jeff
 * Gwine to pin maself close to his side
 * If ah flag his train, I sho' can ride


 * (chorus)

[Verse]
 * You ought to see dat stovepipe brown of mine
 * Lak he owns de Dimon Joseph line
 * He'd make a cross-eyed o' man go stone blind


 * Blacker than midnight, teeth lak flags of truce
 * Blackest man in de whole St. Louis
 * Blacker de berry, sweeter is the juice

[Bridge]
 * About a crap game he knows a pow'ful lot
 * But when worktime comes he's on de dot
 * Gwine to ask him for a cold ten spot
 * What it takes to git it, he's cert'nly got


 * (chorus)


 * A black headed gal make a freight train jump the track
 * Said a black headed gal make a freight train jump the track
 * But a long tall gal makes a preacher ball the Jack


 * Lawd a blonde headed woman makes a good man leave the town
 * I said blonde headed woman makes a good man leave the town
 * But a red head woman makes a boy slap his papa down


 * Oh ashes to ashes and dust to dust
 * I said ashes to ashes and dust to dust
 * If my blues don't get you, my jazzing must