St. James Infirmary Lyrics

Cassandra Wilson St. James Infirmary

I went down to St. James Infirmary
To see my baby laying there,
He was lyin' on a long white table,
So sweet, so cool, so fair.

Let him go, let him go, God bless him;
Wherever he may be
He can look this whole wide world over
And never find a sweet girl like me

When he died I dressed him in straight lace shoes
A boxback coat and a stetson hat
Put a twenty dollar gold piece on his watch chain
So the boys'll know that he died standing flat