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Artist: Cab Calloway
Canonical path: /cab-calloway/st-james-infirmary
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St. James Infirmary
Read St. James Infirmary lyrics by Cab Calloway on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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St. James Infirmary
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Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary
See my baby there
She's stretched 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 never find another sweet man like me
Now, when I die, bury me in my 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
An' give me six crap shooting pall 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
Folks, now that you have heard my story
Say, boy, hand me another shot of that booze
If anyone should ask you
Tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary blues
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Cab Calloway performs "St. James Infirmary", and this lyric page sits inside the Cab Calloway catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to Cabin In The Cotton (There's A) and A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird with a short reason for opening each page next.
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