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Barkeep, barkeep, gimme another shot of that Old Crow 

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Tell you a story about my friend Big Joe 



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Said I was down in Old Joe's barroom 

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Right there in the square 

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Well all the usual suspects was assembled 

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Big Joe Mckinny was there 

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He said "Boys I wanna tell you a story" 

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His eyes were all bloodshot red 

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Well he leaned down real low and he told me 

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These were the words he said 

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"I went down to Saint James Infirmary 

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I heard my baby groan 

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She was stretched out on a long white table 

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She used to be my very own 

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Oh let her go, let her go, god bless her 

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Wherever she may be 

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She can search that wide world over 

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She won't never find a meaner man than me" 




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When I die bury me in straight lace shoes 

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A box-back coat and a Stetson hat 
  
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And put a twenty dollar gold chain on my daddy's old watch 

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So those boys know I died standing pat 

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And give me six crap-shooters for pall-bearers 

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Let a Chorus girl sing me a song 

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Put a red hot jazz band on my funeral march 

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Raise hell as I roll along 

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Roll out your old-time carriage 

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I say roll out your old-time hat 

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Oh there's twelve men going down to the graveyard 

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And eleven are coming back 



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Well Big Joe, he's one mighty box man 

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But the plague took the woman he loved 

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Like it took old King Jesse before her 

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It'll come take your soul 'fore it's done 


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Now that I told my story 

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Pour another shot of booze 

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And if anyone should ever ask me, yeah yeah 

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Well I got those Saint James Infirmary Blues, yeah yeah 


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I  went down 

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I  went down 

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I  went down 

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I  went down