"St. James Infirmary Blues" | Silk Road Ensemble + Rhiannon Giddens

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I went down
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to St. James Infirmary
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To see my baby there
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She was lying on a long wooden table
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So cold, so still, so fair
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I went up to see the doctor
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"She's very low," he said
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I went back to see my baby
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Good God
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she's lying there dead
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I went down to old Joe's bar room
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On the corner of the square
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They were serving drinks as per usual
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And the usual crowd was there
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To my left stood Old Joe McKennedy
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His eyes were bloodshot red
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He turned to the crowd around him
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And these are the words he said
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"Let her go, let her go, God bless her
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Wherever she may be
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She can search this whole wide world all over
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But she'll never find another man like me
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She can search this whole wide world all over
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And she'll never find
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another man
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like me
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When I die, please God, bury me
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In my ten-dollar Stetson hat
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Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
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So my friends know I died standing pat
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Get six gamblers to carry my coffin
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And six choir girls to sing me a song
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Stick a jazz band on my hearse wagon
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To raise hell as I go along
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Now that's the end of my story
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Let's have another round of booze
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And if anyone should ask you
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Just tell them I got
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the St. James Infirmary
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blues
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(Applause)
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