St James Infirmary Tab

Title:  St. James Infirmary Blues
Artist: Cab Calloway, https://youtu.be/bFBx3qYGxL8
Capo:   2; optionally
Time:   4/4, Tempo Q=100, eighths are marked '+', sixteenths are marked 's'.
The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position. Use thumb-fretting.
 
[Verse]
   Am  +       +       +       +         +       +   Dm  +       s  s    Am  +       +       +       +
E|---------------------------------|-0-----------0---------------0-----|---------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------1---|-----------------3--------------3-\|-1-------------------------------|
G|-----2-------2-------2-----------|-----2---------------2-------------|-----2-------2-------2-------2---|
D|---------2---------------2-------|---------2---------------0---------|---------2---------------2-------|
A|-0-------------------------------|-0---------------0-----------------|-0-------------------------------|
E|-----------------0---------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------0---------------|
                       I       went  down        to  St.        James In-firmary,                    To 
 
       +       s  s  Dm  +       +     Am  +       +       +       +         +       +   Dm  +       s  s
E|-0-----------0--3-/5-----------1---|-0-------------------------------|-0-----------0---------------0-----|
B|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------1---|-----------------3--------------3-\|
G|-----2-----------------0-----------|-----2-------2-------2---2-------|-----2---------------2-------------|
D|---------2-----------------2-------|---------2---------------0-------|---------2---------------0---------|
A|-0-----------------0---------------|-0-------------------------------|-0---------------0-----------------|
E|-----------------------------------|-----------------0---------------|-----------------------------------|
   see         my    ba-         by    there,                  She was   lyin'      on a long        white 
 
      Am  +            +    +         +       +   E7  +       s  s    Am       +
E|---------------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------|
B|-1-------------------------|-1---------------0-----------1-p0--|------------------------|
G|-----2-----------------2---|-----2-------2-------1-------------|-2--------2-------------|
D|---------2--------2--------|---------2---------------0---------|------2------------2----|
A|-0-------------------------|-0---------------------------------|-0----------------------|
E|--------------0------------|-----------------0-----------------|--------------0---------|
   table,                So    sweet,      so cool,         so     fair.
 
[MoreLyrics]
 
I went up to see the doctor, "She's very low," he said;
Went back to see my baby, Good God! She's lying there dead.
 
I went down to old Joe's barroom, On the corner by the square
They were serving the drinks as usual, And the usual crowd was there.
 
On my left stood old Joe McKennedy, And his eyes were bloodshot red;
He turned to the crowd around him, These are the words he said:
 
Let her go, let her go, God bless her; Wherever she may be
She may search the wide world over And never find a better man than me
 
Oh, when I die, please bury me In my ten dollar Stetson hat;
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain, So my friends'll know I died standin' pat.
 
Get six gamblers to carry my coffin Six chorus girls to sing me a song
Put a twenty-piece jazz band on my tail gate, To raise Hell as we go along
 
Now that's the end of my story, Let's have another round of booze
And if anyone should ask you just tell them, I've got the St. James Infirmary blues
 
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