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Gambler's Blues (St. James Infirmary Blues)

by The Hokum Boys

on Ain't Goin' That Way (2005), The Hokum Boys Vol. 1939 (1994)

I went down to the St. James Infirmary
Find my baby there
Stretched out on a 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
She'll never find a sweet man like me

Lord, I'm living the life of a gambler
From a highbrow to the slum
Lord I'm just a carefree rambler
And I take everything as it comes

Sometimes I'm sittin' pretty
Sometimes I'm on the bust
Lord ain't it a doggone pity
I can't find no woman I can trust

I got Diamonds on my hands now
Good shoes on my feet
And I always make it somehow
And I keep my women off the street

When I die, I want you to bury me in strait-lace shoes
Box-back coat and a Stetson hat
Put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain
So the boys'll know that I died standing pat