St Louis Women (Low Down St Louis Blues)

Lyrics: Lonnie Johnson
Music: Lonnie Johnson

The Deadhead's Taping Compendium lists a 1973 tape recorded by Pigpen solo at the piano. It does not circulate so far as I know. One of the tracks is listed as "St Louis Women". This may be an unknown Pigpen original. Or it might be this 1931 song by Lonnie Johnson, titled "Low Down St Louis Blues" - it seems plausble that Pigpen sung it.

I love my St. Louis women but their ways I really can't stand
I love my St. Louis women but their ways I really can't stand
They always bettin' some woman, how she can take her man

My woman dips snuff and she drinks a good old homemade corn
My woman dips her snuff and she drinks a good old homemade corn
She get as drunk as she can be, then she fight for the whole night long

And I got another gal, live down on Deep Morgan Street
And I got another gal, she lives down on Deep Morgan Street
If she don't kill a man every day, all I can do is a keep her off of me

She drinks her homemade corn whiskey
Blackjack and a razor‘s her friend
She drinks her homemade corn whiskey
A blackjack and a razor‘s her friend
And she loves to kill a man just like the devil loves sin

Boys, I got another gal, she lives down on Walnut Street
Boys, I got another gal, she lives down on Walnut Street
My other gal is so bad, the cops is scared to walk the beat

She can make a blackjack talk and a razor fairly moan
She can make a blackjack talk and a razor fairly moan
From the way that gal kill up men, the graveyard ain't got much more room


 


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