“Kansas City Blues”
Description
"River is deep and the river is wide, Gal I love is on the other side. I'm gonna move to Kansas City... Move, honey babe, where they don't 'low you." Miscellaneous verses about women, prostitution (?), drugs, loneliness, the girl the singer loves....
Notes
This song also became popular in jazz circles, after being popularized by Joe Turner and others. - PJS
Cross references
- cf. "Ohio River, She's So Deep and Wide" (floating lyrics)
Recordings
- "Red" Willie Smith, "Kansas City Blues" (on NFMAla1)
References
- Silber-FSWB, p. 77, "Kansas City Blues" (1 text)
- DT, KCBLES*
- BI, FSWB077C