St. Louis Blues

DESCRIPTION: "I hate to see the evening sun go down (x2), 'Cause my baby, he done left this town." The singer will pack up to "make my getaway." St. Louis women can lead men by their apron strings. The singer has been to a gypsy. The singer has the blues
AUTHOR: W. C. Handy (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: love separation
FOUND IN: US(So)
RECORDINGS:
Brian Hawkins, "St. Louis Blues" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #707, recorded 10/11/2023)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Been to the Gypsy (St. Louis Blues)" (lyrics)
NOTES [71 words]: There is a Wikipedia entry for this song; see it for background. - RBW
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 331, estimates that this was the twenty-second most popular song in America in November in 1920 (#1 for the year being "Whispering" by Sherman Clay), and was also something of a hit in 1948 re-arranged as a march. - RBW
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