Name: NOT PLAYING THE ST JAMES INFIRMARY BLUES 7-19-18
Channel: J. Wrabek dba Outside Services Ltd.
Description: Free MP3 download. Recorded 7-19-18 at Scott Casey's Moss Creek Studios, Garibaldi, Oregon.

NOT PLAYING THE ST JAMES INFIRMARY BLUES 7-19-18

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Recorded 7-19-18 at Scott Casey's Moss Creek Studios, Garibaldi, Oregon.

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Genre

Country • Traditional Country

Charts

Peak #108

Peak in subgenre #26

Author

J. Wrabek dba Outside Services Ltd.

Rights

2018

Uploaded

July 19, 2018

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MP3 3.8 MB • 160 kbps • 3:20

Lyrics

[4/4, sleazy two-step]

NOT PLAYING THE ST. JAMES INFIRMARY BLUES (2017)
--J. Wrabek

1.
C     C7
I was playing at the tavern late last night
                  F
When this cute little woman-girl caught my eye
              C                                                                          G
Sayin’ “I want you to play me the Saint James Infirmary Blues”;
            C                                                           C7
Well, I never heard the song, but I sure could see
          F
That girl just might be goin’ home with me
         C                                    G                                C
So I told her, “Yes, I’ll play you the Saint James Infirmary Blues.

2.
“Now, I don’t got a trumpet or a saxophone—
Just me and the banjo, and this microphone—
And it may not sound like anything you ever knew;
And I ain’t played the song in a real long while,
But I like your face, and I love your smile,
And I’m gonna play you the Saint James Infirmary Blues.”

3.
I started on the one, went to the seventh and the four,
And back to the one for just a little bit more,
Walked down to the sixth, then up to the second and five;
Then I pointed that banjo straight up to the sky
And looked that little girl right square in the eye
And said, “Honey, you give me the Saint James Infirmary Blues.”

[SPOKEN]  And it went like this:

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK is a ragtime progression, the only one in the song—
C . . . C7 . . . F . . . . . . . C . . . A7 . . . D7 . . . G . . . G7 . . .
—but it goes back to a two-step in the second half: 
C . . . C7 . . . F . . . . . . . C . . . G . . . C . . . . . . .

4.
I woke up this morning with that girl by my side—
Guess I must’ve done something right
Playing a song I never heard, and I never knew;
And if that girl shows up in my club again,
I’m gonna play her that song like I did back then
And say, “Honey, you done give me the Saint James Infirmary Blues.”

REPEAT LAST LINE 2X TO END

© 2017 J. Wrabek dba Outside Services Ltd.  All the usual rights reserved just in case.  No infirmaries were harmed in the writing of this song.

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