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Saint Louis Blues
Words & Music by W.C. Handy, 1914Recorded by Lena Horne, 1941
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I hate to see that evenin' sun go down,
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I hate to see that evenin' sun go down,
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'Cause my baby, he has left this town.
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If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel today,
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If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel to - day,
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I'll pack my trunk and make my get-away.
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Saint Louis woman, with all her diamond rings,
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Stole that man of mine by her apron strings.
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If it wasn't for powder and her store-bought hair,
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The man I love wouldn't'a gone nowhere, nowhere.
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Got the Saint Louie Blues, just as blue as I can be;
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That man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea,
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Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me.
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I love that man like a schoolboy loves his pie,
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Like a Kentucky Colonel loves his rocker and rye,
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Gonna love that man til the day I die.