St. Louis woman wid her diamond rings
Pulls that man ’round by her apron strings.
‘T’wernt for powder an’ for store-bought hair
De man I love would not have gone nowhere.
[Chorus] Got de St. Louis blues jes’ as blue as I can be!
Dat man got a heart like a rock cast in the sea,
Or else he wouldn’t have gone so far from me.
I loves that man like a schoolboy loves his pie,
Like a Kentucky Col’nel loves his mint and rye.
I’ll love my baby till the day I die.