St James Infirmary Blues Chords & Tabs
St James Infirmary Blues Chords
From the incredible musical, "The Unfortunates"
Em B7
Em
Barkeep, barkeep, gimme another shot of that Old Crow
Em B7 Em
Tell you a story about my friend Big Joe
Em B7 Em
Said I was down in Old Joe's barroom
Em B7 Em
Right there in the square
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Well all the usual suspects was assembled
Em B7 Em
Big Joe Mckinny was there
Em B7 Em
He said "Boys I wanna tell you a story"
Em G B7
His eyes were all bloodshot red
Em B7 Am
Well he leaned down real low and he told me
Em B7 Em
These were the words he said
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"I went down to Saint James Infirmary
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I heard my baby groan
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She was stretched out on a long white table
Em B7 Em
She used to be my very own
Em B7 Em
Oh let her go, let her go, god bless her
Em G B7
Wherever she may be
Em B7 Am
She can search that wide world over
Em B7 Em
She won't never find a meaner man than me"
Em B7 Em
When I die bury me in straight lace shoes
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Em B7 Em
A box-back coat and a Stetson hat
Em B7 Em
And put a twenty dollar gold chain on my daddy's old watch
Em B7 Em
So those boys know I died standing pat
Em B7 Em
And give me six crap-shooters for pall-bearers
Em G B7
Let a chorus girl sing me a song
Em B7 Am
Put a red hot jazz band on my funeral march
Em B7 Em
Raise hell as I roll along
Em B7 Em
Roll out your old-time carriage
Em B7 Em
I say roll out your old-time hat
Em B7 Em
Oh there's twelve men going down to the graveyard
Em B7 Em
And eleven are coming back
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Well Big Joe, he's one mighty box man
Em G B7
But the plague took the woman he loved
Em B7 Am
Like it took old King Jesse before her
Em B7 Em
It'll come take your soul 'fore it's done
Em B7 Em
Now that I told my story
Em B7 Em
Pour another shot of booze
Em B7 Em
And if anyone should ever ask me, yeah yeah
Em B7 Em
Well I got those Saint James Infirmary Blues, yeah yeah
Em B7 Em
I went down
Em G B7
I went down
Em B7 Am
I went down
Em B7 Em
I went down
