Chords for Banjo Music "St. Louis Blues" Eddy Davis Tenor Banjo

Well, let's stay with Mr.
Handy.
He's a man.
_ He has, of course, _ _ _ _ his [F] infamous _ [C] St.
Louis Blues.
A few years before, _ _ he _ wrote part of this song of St.
Louis Blues into [G] _
a blues called the Joko Blues.
And Joko Blues means black, as I understand, the black blues.
So there's part of this around before St.
Louis Blues.
But when he went with the Meharra Minstrels to Cuba, so the books say, _
he brought back a habanera.
That was the early tango in Cuba.
And that's what the center section of this St.
Louis Blues is, is the habanera that he brought back from Cuba.
And it was over there.
I'm talking way back in the ragtime era, in the Minstrels.
He was with the Minstrels, the Meharra Minstrels.
Anyway, it goes_ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Cm] _ [F] _ _ St.
Louis Blues.
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[Ab] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Okay, [C] everybody now.
[G] Well, I hate to see [Gb]
that evening sun [G] go down _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] Yes, I hate to see that evening [G] sun go down
_ Cause _ _ [C] that [Gm] sweet gal [C] I love, she done left this town
[G] She's gone away, that's why.
_ [C] _ Now if [G] I'm feeling tomorrow, [Bm] just like I feel [G] today _ _ _
_ [A] _ [D] Said if I'm feeling tomorrow, _ like I [G] feel today
I'm _
_ [A] _ _ [C] gonna pack my trunks _ and make my _ [G] getaway
Here comes that habanero now, everybody.
_ [C] St.
Louis blues, _ _ with all your diamond rings _ _ _
_ And hang that band around _ _ by your [Fm] apron serene
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_ [C] Now if [Fm] it weren't for the powder _ [C] and the store bought heels
Why _
_ [E] _ that sweet gal I love, [C]
would not have gone nowhere, [G] _ nowhere
[C] _ I [F] got the St.
Louis blues, and I'm blue lord
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_ _ _ [Bb] I got the St.
Louis blues, I'm blue lord as I
[F] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ [Gm] Cause that gal's got a heart [C] like a rock cast in the sea
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_ [C] _ _ _ [G] I'm going back to Chicago [D] to get my [G] hambone boiled
I'm a Chicago guy at heart, [Eb] you know that.
I'm going [Bb] back to Chicago to see [D] those boys
Jack Funtzler, [G] John Cooper, and all those boys back there
Ah, [C] yeah, I'm gonna be there
That's where I'm [G] about to be _ _ _
[C] _ Now [F] if you don't like my peaches, [Bb]
why must you shake my [G] tree
Kim Hussack, too, that's [A] a guy.
_ Now [Gb] if you don't like my peaches, why must you shake [F] my tree
One Sheffield Green, you know _
_ _ [C] I'm gonna get out of my orchard now, and let my peach [G] tree be _ _ _
[C] _ I'm [G] going down through the river, [Gb]
seeing you [G] by and by
So [A] long, goodbye
_ _ [Bm] I'm going down through the river, and this is the [G] reason why
_ [F] _
_ Cause [C] the river is wet, and the ocean's dun [G]-dun-dry
That's another tune there, but I'll count that out
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Now take [G] me back to St.
Louis, [Bm] cause that's where I [G] belong
_ [Cm] Wop, wop, wop, hey, [Gb] back to St.
Louis, cause that's where I [G] belong
Hey, that's the big band player back there, [F] you know
[C] And if you don't think I'm gone, why don't you count the days [Cm] I'm gone
Count the [F] days _ I'm _ [E] gone _ _
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