1928 – Don Redman / Irving Mills
I went down to St. James Infirmary
Saw my baby there…
She was stretched out on a long, white table
So cold, so sweet, so fair
Let her go! let her go! God bless her!
Wherever she may be…
She can look this wide world over,
But she’ll never find a sweet man like me, (heh-heh)…bragging
When I die bury me in straight-laced shoes,
I want a box-back coat and a Stetson hat, John B., that is…
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
So the boys will know that I died standing pat