St. James Infirmary (chromatic)

by Joe Primrose , Josh White

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ST. JAMES INFIRMARY (chromatic)
Josh White, Joe Primrose
Key: G

 3    3   2  3  2   -2*   2  -4
When will I  ev-er stop moan-in’ 
 3    3   2  3 -2*   2
When will I  ev-er smile? 
-3 -3  2   4  -4   -3  2 
My ba-by went and left me, 
   3    2   3  2   3     3   -2*
She’ll be gone a long, long while. 
3   3   2   3   2   -2*   2  -4 
I feel so blue and heart-bro-ken, 
  3  3  2  3  -2*   2
What am I liv-ing for? 
-3 -3  2  -3  -3   -3  2 
My ba-by went and left me, 
 3  2  3   2    3   3  -2*
Nev-er to come back no more. 

-4 -4   -4  -4 -3   -4   -4  3   2
I went down to St. James In-fir-m‘ry 
  -4  -4  6  5   -4 
Heard my ba-by groan, 
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I felt so bro-ken heart-ed, 
 2    3  3  3 -2*  2
She used to be my own. 
-4  -4  -4  -3   -4   3   2 
I tried to keep from cry-in’ 
-4   -4   -4    6    5   -4 
My heart felt just like lead, 
-4  -4  -4 -4 -3  -4   3   2 
She was all I had to live for, 
2    2    -2*  3  3  3  -2*  2 
I wished that it was me in-stead. 
 
Play two more times, then: 

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When I die I want you to dress me 
-4    -4      3    2 
In straight lace shoes, 
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Box back coat and a stet-son hat 
 2  3  -4  -4 -4  -4   -3   -3 
Put a twen-ty dol-lar gold piece 
-4 -4   3     2    2  -2*   3 
On my watch chain, so the boy’s 
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‘ll know that I died stand-ing   pat