Well, I hate to see that evening sun go down Well, I hate to see that evening sun go down 'Cause it make me think, "Am I on my last go-round?" If I'm feeling tomorrow a-like I feel today If I feel tomorrow like I feel today I'm gonna pack my suitcase and make my long get-away 'Cause the St. Louis woman, she wears her diamond ring She leads her man around by her apron string If it wasn't for powder and this store-bought hair Oh, the girl I love wouldn't go nowhere, hair, hair I got the St. Louis blues and just as blue as I can be My girl got a heart like a rock cast in the sea
That's the reason why she goes so far from me I love my girl like a schoolboy loves his pie A-like a Kentucky white man loves his rock-and-rye I love my girl 'til the day I die A red-headed woman make a freight train jump the track A red-headed woman will make a freight train jump the track And a black-headed gal will make a preacher ball the jack I got the St. Louis blues and just as blue as I can be My girl got a heart like a rock cast in the sea That's the reason why she goes so far from me