St Louis woman with all her diamond rings

That man around her apron strings

And if it wasn't for powder and her store-bought hair

That man of mine wouldn't go nowhere nowhere

I got those St Louis blues just as blue as I can be

My man's got a heart like a rock cast down in the sea

Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me

I love that man like a schoolboy loves his pie

Just like a Kentucky colonel loves his rocker and rye

I'll love that man until the day I die

I just see St Louis woman with all her diamond rings

Oh man around by my apron strings

But if it wasn't for powder and all that store-bought hair

Oh that man of mine wouldn't go nowhere nowhere

I got those St Louis blues just as blue as I can be

My man's got a heart like a rock cast down in the sea

Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me