Chords for Mildred Bailey - St. Louis Blues (1939)

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[Cm] _ _ _ _ [C] I hate to see the evening sun go down
[D] Said [F] I hate to see the evening sun [C] go down
_ [Dm] Cause the man I love done [Am] left this town
[C] _ If I'm feeling [F] tomorrow just like I [C] feel today
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_ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] I'm gonna pack my [G] bags and make [C] my getaway
St.
[F] _ [C] Louis woman with all her [G] diamond rings
As she pulls that man around by [C] her apron strings
_ _ It weren't for powder and [G] for store-bought hair
[Dm] The man I love wouldn't go nowhere, [D] nowhere
[E] St.
[F] Louis blues, [C] Lord I'm just as blue as I can be
[F] My man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea
[C] _ [D] Or else he wouldn't [G] have gone so [F] far from me
[C] _ I love my [F] man like a [C] schoolboy loves his pie
_ [F] Said I love my man like a schoolboy [C] loves his pie
_ [D] That sweet man until the day [F] I die
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_ [C] _ _ _ Said a red-headed gal would make a good man leave this town
[F] Said a red-headed gal would make a good [C] man leave this town
But a little short fat swatty mama, baby slap his pappy down
De de de de de de de [F] de de de de de de de _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Gm] _
[Cm] Make a baby slap his [C] pappy down _ _ _ _
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