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I hate to see that eve-nin' sun go down
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Hate to see that eve-nin' sun go down
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'Cause my ba-by, he done lef' this town.
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Feel- in' to-mor-row lak ah feel to-day.
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Feel to-mor-row lak ah feel to-day.
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I'll pack my trunk, make my get-a-way.
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St. Lou-is wom-an, wid her dia-mon' rings
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Pulls dat man ‘round by her a-pron strings.
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'Twant for pow-der an' for store-bought hair,
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De man I love would not gone no-where.
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Got de St. Lou-is blues
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jes as blue as Ah kin be
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Dat man got a heart
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lak a rock cast in the sea.
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Or else he would-n't have
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gone so far from me.