ST.

LOUIS BLUES
Words and Music by
W. C. Handy
A
Moderately
C F C C F
     
                 

1. I hate to see the eve nin' sun go down, hate to see
2. Feel in' to mor row
C like I feel
G to day,
G (  ) feel to mor row
   
  
               
 
the eve nin' sun go down. 'Cause my ba by, he done left this
like I feel to day. I'll pack my trunk make my get a

1. C 2. C B Cm G
           
            

town. way. St. Lou is wom an with her dia mon' rings,

G Cm Cm
             
    
   
pulls that man roun' by her ap ron strings, 'twant for pow der

G G Cm D

                
 
 
   
an' for store bought hair, the man I love would not gone no where.

G
 C C C
  
                 
Got the St. Lou is Blues just as blue as I can be, That

F C G
           

         
 

man got a heart like a rock cast in the sea, or else he would n't have gone

C
       
   
so far from me.

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