Name: Saint James Infirmary
Duration: P00H05M08S
Description: We've been playing our own arrangement of this classic New Orleans tune for years and decided it was high time to document it...at the request of many of our fans.

Saint James Infirmary

from LO-Fi EP No. 1 by Gaines and Wagoner

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We've been playing our own arrangement of this classic New Orleans tune for years and decided it was high time to document it...at the request of many of our fans.

lyrics

It was down in old Joe's barroom
On the corner by the square
The drinks were bein' served as usual
And the usual crowd was there

When up stepped old Joe McGinty
And his eyes, they were blood-shot red
As he poured himself one big old shot o' whiskey
Brother these were the words he said

I went down to Saint James Infirmary
Just to see my baby there
Stretched out on a big white table
So smooth, so cold, so fair...well

Let her go, let her go, God bless her
Wherever she may be
She may search this whole wide world over
And she'll never find a man like me

There was sixteen coal-black horses
HItched to a rubber-tired hack
There was seven women goin' down to the graveyard
But only six of them was comin' back

Now that you heard my story
Pour me one more shot of booze
And if anyone comes askin' about me
Tell em' I've got the Saint James Infirmary blues

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from LO-Fi EP No. 1, track released April 6, 2018
Chris Wagoner: vocals, violin
Mary Gaines: vocals, cello

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Gaines and Wagoner Madison, Wisconsin

Based in Madison, WI, the award-winning husband and wife duo of Mary Gaines (cello, guitar, bass, vocals) and Chris Wagoner (violin, mandolins, lapsteel, ukulele, guitar, accordion, vocals) play an eclectic mix of Americana—original and classic tunes ranging from folk to jazz, bluegrass to blues, honky-tonk and a little singer-songwriter on the side. ... more

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