LOUIS ARMSTRONG - Saint Louis Blues lyrics
rate meI hate's to see dat ev'nin' sun go down<br>Hate's to see dat ev'nin' sun go down<br>Cause ma baby, she done lef' dis town.<br>If I feel tomorrow lak ah feel today<br>Feel tomorrow lak ah feel today,<br>I'll pack up my trunk, and make ma git away.<br><br>Saint louis woman wid her diamon' rings<br>Pulls dat man 'roun' by her apron strings.<br>'twern't for powder an' her store-bought hair<br>De man she love wouldn't gone nowhere, nowhere.<br><br>Got dem saint louis blues I'm as blue as ah can be.<br>Like a man done throwed that rock down into de sea<br>Got dem saint louis blues I'm as blue as ah can be.<br><br>Went to de gypsy get her fortune tole<br>To de gypsy, done got her fortune tole,<br>Cause she most wile 'bout her jelly roll.<br>Now dat gypsy tole her, don't you wear no black.<br>She done tole her, don't you wear no black.<br>Go to saint louis, you can win him back.<br><br>If she git tocairo, make saint louis by herself,<br>Git to cairo, find her old friend jeff,<br>Gwine to pin herself, right there, to his side if she flag his train, she sho' can ride.<br><br>(spoken) and she sang<br><br>Got dem saint louis blues jes as blue as ah can be.<br>Dat man got a heart lak a rock cast into de sea.<br>Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me.<br>Doggone it!<br>I loves day man lak a schoolboy loves his pie,<br>Lak a kentucky col'nel ....loves his mint an' rye.<br>I'll love ma baby till the day ah die.<br><br>Now a black-headed gal makes a freight train jump the track,<br>Said a black-headed gal makes a freight train jump the track,<br>But a long tall gal makes a preacher ball the jack.<br><br>Lawd, a blonde-headed woman make a good man leave the town,<br>I said a blonde-headed woman make a good man leave the town,<br>But a red-headed woman make a boy slap his pappy down.
