St. Louis Blues

Merle Haggard

Written by William Handy

Key of C · Chords: I II IV V

Verse 1

C                  F                   C
Lord I hate to see that evening sun go down
F                                 C
I hate to see that evening sun go down
         G7                                   C
Cause my baby she's gone she don’t love me no how

Verse 2

                                   G7
I’m insane rich man with a diamond ring
                                               C
Ah she pulls that guy around town by her apron strings
                                                   G7
And if it weren’t for powder and that store bought hair
                                            C   D7   G7
Well that gal of mine wouldn’t have gone so far from here

Verse 3

          C                      F             C
I got the St. Louis blues I’m as blue as I can be
         F                                       C
And that man got a heart like a rock cast in the sea
   G7                                                        C
Or else he wouldn't have carried her so dog-gone so far from me

Verse 4

                        F                            C
Listen all you rounders you better leave my good gal alone
  F                                                         C
I said listen all you rounders you better leave my good gal alone
      G7                                               C
Cause you can’t give her nothing that she can’t get at home

Verse 5

                        F                C
Sump’um about you momma sure give me the blues
           F                                        C
Ah there’s sump’um about you momma sure give me the blues
         G7                                                   C
It ain’t your drop stitch stockings might be your blue buckle shoes

Verse 6

                     F                                    C
Cause a black-headed women makes a freight train jump the track
         F                                                 C
I said a black headed woman makes a freight train jump the track
             G7                                      C
And that ole long tall gal makes a bullfrog ball the jack