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East St Louis Blues

from Beauty In The Dirt by Cory Seznec

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I walked all the way from East Saint Louis
I didn’t have but that 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, never shine

I pawned my sword and I pawned my chain
I pawned myself but I fell to shame

Fare thee well, woman, fare thee well
Fare thee well, woman
Fare thee well, woman, fare thee well

I tried to meet you in the spring when the bluebird's almost ready to sing
Fare thee well now honey, fare thee well

I tried to meet you in the fall when you didn't have no man at all
Fare thee well now honey, fare thee well

You can shake like a cannon ball, get out and do that old Georgia crawl
Fare thee well honey, fare thee well

I laid my head in a barroom door
And I won’t get drunk no more

Fare thee well, honey, fare thee well
Fare thee well, honey
Fare thee well, woman, fare thee well

I walked all the way from East Saint Louis
I didn’t have but that one thin dime

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from Beauty In The Dirt, released April 15, 2014

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Somewhere between musical wanderer and uncertified ethnomusicologist dwells the artist Cory Seznec and his unique world.
A French-American in Paris, Seznec’s fingerstyle guitar-playing is syncopated, polyrhythmic, cross-pollinated, and idiosyncratic. He also sings, plays old-time banjo, and wades in the deep river of American song.
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