I hate to see that evening sun go down

Oh

I hate to see that evening sun go down

'Cause my baby she has left this town

St Louis woman without your diamond ring

She pulls my man around

By her apron strings

And if it wasn't for powder

And her store-bought hair

That man of mine

Wouldn't go so far from here

I got St Louis blues

Just as blue as I can be

Oh my man's got a heart

Like a rock cast in the sea

Or else he wouldn't have gone

So done gone far from me