Blind Willie Mctell East St Louis Blues (aka Fare You Well) Lyrics

East St Louis Blues (aka Fare You Well) Lyrics

I walked all the way from East Saint Louis

I never had but that one, one
thin dime



I laid my head in a New York woman's lap

She laid
her little cute head in mine



She tried to make me bleed by the
rattlings of her tongue

The sun would never, never shine



I
pawned my sword and I pawned my chain

Well I pawned myself but I fell to
shame



I tried to see you in the fall

When you didn't have no
man at all



I'd love to meet you in the spring when the bluebird's
almost ready to sing

Faree, honey, faree well



You can shake
like a cannon ball, get out and learn that old Georgia crawl

Faree,
honey, faree well



(play it boy...)



And I laid my head
in a barroom door

And I can't get drunk, drunk no more



Now if
you can't do the sugary get yourself on out of this house to me

Faree,
baby, faree well



I tried to see you in the spring when the
bluebird's almost ready to sing

Faree, honey, faree well



And
I walked on back to East Saint Louis

Never had but that one, one thin
dime