Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary lyrics

Cab Callowway and His Orchestra

SAINT JAMES INFIRMARY

Well folks, I'm going down to Saint James Infirmary

See my baby there

She's streached out on a long white table

She's so sweet, so cold, so fair.

Let her go, let her go, god bless her

Wherever she may be

She will search this wide world over

But she'll nver find another sweet man like me.

Now when I die, bury me in straight leg britches

Put on a box back coat and a Stetson hat

Put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain

So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat.

Then give me six crap shooting Paul Bearers

Let a chorus girl sing me a song

Put a red hot jazz band at the top of my head

So we can raise Hallelujah as we go along.

Well folks now you have heard my story

Say boy, hand me another shot of that booze

If anyone should ask you

Tell em' I've got the Saint James Infirmary blues.

A true classic!