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In 1893, a hungry and unshaven homeless musician named W.C. Handy slept on cobblestones underneath the Eads Bridge in St. Louis. 

He spotted a woman on the riverfront who cried that her man had "a heart like a rock." These words became part of Handy's popular 1914 composition, "St. Louis Blues." 


It was nearly the most-recorded song of the first half of the 20th century, second only to "Silent Night."