St. Louis Blues

St. Louis woman with her diamond rings

Pulls that man around by her apron strings

T’wasn't for the powder and her store-bought hair

The girl I love would not go nowhere,

I got the St. Louis blues, just as blue as I can be

That girl got a heart like a rock cast in the sea

Or else she would not have gone so far from me

I love that girl like a schoolboy loves his pie,

Like a Kentucky Colonel loves his mint and rye

I'll love my baby untill the day I die

I'll love my baby till the day I die