St. Lois Slim Lyrics - Seasick Steve

Now Bensenville is a train yard over in Chicago 

And the bumpers y'all well that's just the coupling 

Between the freight cars 

And Calay is California that's what that mean 

And the choke picker that someone who picks artichokes 

Now you got the story y'all 

Do you hear St. Louis Slim lost a leg 

He just outside Bensenville 

For some damn reason he was riding on the bumpers 

Act like a young man will 

And now the last we spoke he was going down to Memphis 

Said he got himself a girl 

Said going queer, riding these rails 

Give himself back to the world 

But me I'm going down out to Calay 

And I believe that we're I first met him? 

So bo' let's put our coins together 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim? 

Well, alright 

I hear the looking for choke pickers out in Watsonville 

Your welcome to tag along 

And maybe someday when I'm old and gray 

I'll write this XXXX down in a song 

But in the meantime I'm going out to Calay 

I believe that where I first met him 

So bo' let's put our coins together 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis' sleeve 

You remember him, you remember him 

But in the meantime I'm going out to Calay 

I believe that we're both but him? 

So bo' let's put our coins together 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis Slim 

And drink a bottle to St. Louis 

One bottle to St. Louis 

One bottle to St. Louis Slim