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St. Louis Blues

 

Bessie Smith 1925

 

Key <G>

 

Original Key <Eb>

 

I/// IV/// I/// I/// 

IV// IV/// I/// I///

V/// IV/// I/// V/// V///

 

(minor bit)

Im/// Im/// V/// V///

V// V/// Im/// Im///

Im/// Im/// V/// V///

V// V/// I/// IV/V/

 

I hate to see the evening sun go down

I hate to see the evening sun go down

It makes me think I'm on my last go round

 

Feeling tomorrow like I feel today

Feeling tomorrow like I feel today

I'll pack my crib and make my getaway

 

(minor)

Saint Louis woman wears a diamond ring

Wears her man around by her apron strings

Wasn't for powder and the store bought hair

The man I love wouldn't go nowhere nowhere  

 

(no quick change on chorus)   

I got them St. Louis blues just as blue as I can be

He's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea

Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me

 

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