St. James Infirmary Blues

Arlo Guthrie

  • Am*
    2
  • Am/G*
    2
  • C*
    2
  • E7*
    2
  • Fmaj7*
    2
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Key:
Capo: 
Capo 2


Intro:  Instrumental Verse

       Am      E7      Am
It was down at old Joe's bar room

        Am         Fmaj7  C       E7
At the corner      by the square

          Am      E7       Am    
They were serving drinks as usual

   Am/G


        Fmaj7         E7      
And the usual         crowd was 

     Am
there

      Am         E7         Am
On my left stood big Joe MacKennedy

    Am         Fmaj7        C    
His eyes were bloodshot     red

   E7


           Am           E7         
And as he looked at the gang around

Am    Am/G
 him

      Fmaj7         E7         Am
These were the very words he said.

       Am      E7        Am
I went down to St. James Infirmary

Am            Fmaj7         C    E7
     I saw my baby          there

          Am       E7          Am
Stretched out on a long, white 

    Am/G
table

   Fmaj7        E7      Am
So young, so   cold, so fair

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Am             E7         Am
     Seventeen coal-black horses

Am           Fmaj7       C    E7
Hitched to a rubber-tied hack

 Am         E7           Am       
Seven girls goin' to the graveyard

Am/G


     Fmaj7           E7     Am
Only six of them are coming back

        Am          E7          
Let her go. Let her go, God bless 

   Am
her

Am          Fmaj7       C       E7
   Wherever she may     be

         Am        E7          Am
She may search this wide world 

         Am/G
over

          Fmaj7        E7       Am
And never find another man like me


Instrumental Verse x2



Am       E7          Am
  When I die just bury me

Am      Fmaj7            C    E7
  In my high-top Stetson hat

        Am            E7          
Place a twenty-dollar gold piece 

     Am        Am/G
on my watch chain

           Fmaj7       E7         
To let the Lord know I died 

   Am
standing pat

       Am                E7   
I want six crap-shooters for my 

   Am
pallbearers

  Am             Fmaj7       C    
A Chorus girl to sing me a   song

 E7


        Am           E7        Am
Place a jazz band on my hearse 

    Am/G
wagon

   Fmaj7            E7        Am
To raise hell as we roll along

Am               E7       Am
 Now that you've heard my story

Am                  Fmaj7         
  I'll take another shot of       

C    E7
booze

Am              E7       Am      
  And if anyone here should ask 

 Am/G
you

Fmaj7          E7        Am
  I've got the gambler's blues

Instrumental Verse, end on Am

St. James Infirmary
Instrumental Verse


                                  
  E |--------------------------|--
  B |--------------------1--3--|--
  G |--------------------------|--
  D |--------------------------|--
  A |--------------------------|--
  E |--------------------------|--
  Am          E7 
 |0--0--------0-----------|  
 |---------1-----3--------|  
 |---------------------0--|  
 |------2-----------2-----|  
 |0-----------------------|  
 |------------0-----------|  


       1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +   
       Am                         
  E |-----------------------0--|--
  B |--1-----------------------|--
  G |-----2--------------------|--
  D |--------2-----------2-----|--
  A |--0-----------------------|--
  E |--------------0-----------|--
  Am          Fmaj7 
 |0--0--------5--3-----0--|  
 |------------------------|  
 |------------------5-----|  
 |------2-----3-----------|  
 |0-----------------------|  
 |------------------------|  


       1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +   
       C           E7             
  E |-----------------0-----0--|--
  B |--------------------------|--
  G |--------------------------|--
  D |--------2-----------2-----|--
  A |--3-----------2-----------|--
  E |--------------------------|--
  Am          E7 
 |5--0-----0--0-----------|  
 |------1-----------3-----|  
 |------------------------|  
 |------------------------|  
 |0-----------3-----2-----|  
 |------------------------|  


       1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +   
       Am          Am/G           
  E |--------------------------|--
  B |--1--------------1--------|--
  G |-----2-----------------0--|--
  D |--------2-----------2-----|--
  A |--0-----------------------|--
  E |--------------3-----------|--
  Fmaj7       E7 
 |------------------------|  
 |1--1--------0-----------|  
 |---------2-----1-----2--|  
 |------3-----------2-----|  
 |------------------------|  
 |1-----------0-----------|  


       1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +   
       Am 
  E |--------------------------|  
  B |--------------------------|  
  G |--------------------------|  
  D |--------2----------2------|  
  A |--0-----------------------|  
  E |--------------0-----------|  


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