{"id":6990,"date":"2003-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:28:21","slug":"st-james-infirmary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6990","title":{"rendered":"St. James Infirmary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Folkden_Podcast_Art.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"220\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/StJames.mp3\">St. James Infirmary<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">One of the great blues from New Orleans, originally &#8216;Gambler&#8217;s Blues.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[Em] I went down to [Am] St. James [Em] Infirmary.<br \/>\n[Em] I saw my [C] baby [B7] there.<br \/>\n[Em] Lying on a [Am] long white table,<br \/>\n[C] So sweet, [B7] so cold, [Em] so fair.<\/p>\n<p>I went up to see the doctor.<br \/>\n&#8216;She&#8217;s very low,&#8217; he said.<br \/>\nI went back to see my baby<br \/>\nAnd great god she was lying there dead.<\/p>\n<p>I went down to Old Joe&#8217;s Bar-room.<br \/>\nDown on the corner by the square.<br \/>\nThey were serving drinks as usual.<br \/>\nAnd the usual crowd was there.<\/p>\n<p>On my left stood Joe MacKennedy.<br \/>\nHis eyes were blood-shot red.<br \/>\nHe turned to the crowd around him<br \/>\nAnd these are the words that he said.<\/p>\n<p>Let her go, let her go, God bless her.<br \/>\nWherever she may be.<br \/>\nShe may search this wide world over<br \/>\nBut she&#8217;ll never find another man like me.<\/p>\n<p>When I die please bury me<br \/>\nIn a high top stetson hat.<br \/>\nPut a gold piece on my watch chain.<br \/>\nSo the boys will know I died standing pat.<\/p>\n<p>Get six gamblers to carry my coffin.<br \/>\nSix chorus girls to sing my song.<br \/>\nPut a jazz band on my tailgate<br \/>\nTo raise hell as we roll along.<\/p>\n<p>This is the end of my story.<br \/>\nSo let&#8217;s have another round of booze.<br \/>\nAnd if any one should ask you just tell them<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got the St. James Infirmary Blues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: St. James Infirmary One of the great blues from New Orleans, originally &#8216;Gambler&#8217;s Blues.&#8217; Lyrics: [Em] I went down to [Am] St. James [Em] Infirmary. [Em] I saw my [C] baby [B7] there. [Em] Lying on a [Am] long white table, [C] So sweet, [B7] so cold, [Em] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St. James Infirmary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8580,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/8580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}