St. James Infirmary - Les McCann, Richard "Groove" Holmes

I feel so blue

And i feel heart broken

What am I living for

My baby she went away… and she left me

No no no never… to come back

No no no more

I went down to St. James Infirmary

I heard my baby moan

I felt so broken hearted

She used to be my own

I tried so hard to keep from crying

My heart felt just like lead

She was all I had to live for

Oh, I wish it was me instead

I went down to St James infirmary

And I saw my baby there

Stretched out on a long, long, long white table

So sweet… so cold… so fair

Let her go… let her go… God bless her

Wherever she may be

She can search this wide world over

But shell never find a sweet man like me

When I die want you to dress me in straight-leg shoes

I wanna a boxback coat and a stetson hat

Put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain

So all the boys’ll know that I died standing pat

St James Infirmary let my baby go, let my baby go