This is W.C. Handy’s signature song, and it’s been covered by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Bessie Smith to Big Bill Broonzy to the one here by Shirley Bassey.
Some claim Handy is the father of the blues because he took what was then an obscure regional genre called delta blues and made it popul...
I hate to see that evening sun go down
I hate to see that evening sun go down
Cause my baby, he's gone left this town
Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
I'll pack my truck and make my give-a-way
St. Louis woman with her diamond ring
Pulls that man around by her, if it wasn't for her and her
That man I love would have gone nowhere, nowhere
I got the St. Louis blues, blues as I can be
That man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea
Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me
I love my baby like a school boy loves his pie
Like a Kentucky colonel loves his mint 'n rye
I love my man till the day I die
St. Louis Blues was written by W. C. Handy.
W. C. Handy released St. Louis Blues on Thu Jan 01 1914.