Saint Louis Blues

Words & Music by W.C. Handy, 1914
Recorded by Lena Horne, 1941


E             A              A7  A6  E 
I hate to see   that evenin' sun go down,

A        A7alt            Gdim Cdim  E   
I hate to see that evenin' sun  go down,

B7                     B7/F#      E    Edim  B7
'Cause my baby, he has left this town.


        E               A        A7  A6  E 
If I'm feelin' tomorrow  like I feel today,

        A        A7alt         Gdim Cdim   E   
If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel  to - day,

     B7           B7/F#               E    Edim  B7
I'll pack my trunk   and make my get-away.


Em          Am7    Em            C       B7      C   B7
Saint Louis woman, with all her diamond rings,

B7                Cdim   B7        Am7     Em      F#7   B7
Stole that man of mine      by her apron strings.

      Em          Am7  Em           C           B7      C   B7
If it wasn't for powder   and her store-bought hair,

    B7     Cdim  B7            Am7              Em    F#7   B7
The man I love      wouldn't'a gone nowhere, nowhere.


B7       E    Em - E       Em- E        Em-E  Edim E
Got the Saint Louie Blues, just as blue  as  I can be;

     A     A6     A7                   Gdim Cdim  E
That man's got a heart like a rock cast in  the  sea,

Edim B7      B7/F#          A     Gdim Cdim  E 
 Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me.


B7  E  Em-E     Em-E              E- E Edim E
I love that man like a schoolboy loves his pie,

       A     A6  A7               Gdim   Cdim  E
Like a Kentucky Colonel loves his rocker and rye,

Edim   B7      B7/F#   A     Gdim Cdim  E 
Gonna love that man   til the day  I   die.




 
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