| There was a place in East St. Louis
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| It was in nineteen fifty nine
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| When they played they filled the streets with music
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| That lonely blue note music
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| That takes your cares away, far away
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| They packed the place when the band was playin'
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| To get some joy from a smoke filled room
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| Through that door you could see the bodies swayin'
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| The blue note band was playin'
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| Some lonely blue note song, all night long Oh, it carried me away, oh,
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| carried me away
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| Oh, it carried me away, oh, carried me away
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| No place I’d rather stay
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| If you should ever make it to St. Louis
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| On some hot and lonely night
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| If you listen you can hear that blue note music
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| They fill the streets with music
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| It carries you away, far away
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| Oh, it carried me away, oh, carried me away
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| Oh, it carried me away, oh, carried me away
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| No place I’d rather stay |