St James Infirmary chords by Doc Watson

Chords with lyrics

From the album "Third Generation Blues" Doc Watson and Richard Watson

Chords
      EADGBe
    E minor 7Em7 02203x
  EmAdd9Emadd9 022002
    Em6Em6 022020
    Am6Am6 002212
    Am7Am7 002213
     C majorC x32013

[Intro refrain]
E minor 7Em7
 When will I ever be happy
A minorAm          E minorEm
When will I ever smile
A minorAm
 My baby went and left me
  C majorC              B7B7
And she'll be gone a long long while

C majorC B7B7 E minorEm EmAdd9Emadd9 Em6Em6

[Verse 1]
Em6Em6  E minorEm       B7B7   E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9 E minorEm
Went down to that St. James Infirmary
E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9  A minorAm  Amadd6
Heard sweet baby groan
E minorEm     B7B7     E minorEm   Em9Em9 Em6Em6
Nobody down there could cheer me
     C majorC      B7B7      E minorEm EmAdd9Emadd9
'Cause I knowed that she'd soon be gone

[Verse 2]
E minorEm      B7B7        E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9 E minorEm
And as I was standing there a'grievin
E minorEm             Am6Am6
My heart feelin' just like lead
E minorEm         B7B7   E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9
I knowed that she'd soon be leavin
   C majorC          B7B7  Em9Em9
I's a'Wishing that it was me instead


[Instrumental break]

E minorEm       B7B7   E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9 E minorEm

E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9  A minorAm  Am7Am7 Amadd6

E minorEm     B7B7     E minorEm   Em9Em9

C majorC      B7B7      E minorEm EmAdd9Emadd9

[Verse 3]
E minorEm         B7B7    E minorEm    EmAdd9Emadd9 E minorEm
Then I went out to Old Joe's bar room
E minorEm               Am7Am7 Am6Am6
Most of my friends were there
E minorEm     B7B7      E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9
But nobody understood my trouble
      C majorC   B7B7    E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9
I tell you, nobody seemed to care.


[Verse 4]
E minorEm           B7B7     E minorEm
When I got back to that St. James Infirmary
E minorEm        A minorAm  Am6Am6
All was still as night
E minorEm       B7B7    E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9
Sweet baby on a long low table
    C majorC  B7B7        E minorEm  EmAdd9Emadd9
She was pale, and so cold and white


[Verse 5]
E minorEm          B7B7   E minorEm     EmAdd9Emadd9
And when I put my hand on her pretty face
E minorEm           A minorAm  Am7Am7 Am6Am6
It was cold like marble stone
   E minorEm       B7B7        E minorEm      EmAdd9Emadd9
And I knowed that no woman could ever take her place
    C majorC       B7B7  E minorEm  EmAdd9Emadd9
Lord it made me feel so alone

[Instrumental break]

E minorEm       B7B7   E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9 E minorEm

E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9  A minorAm  Am7Am7 Amadd6

E minorEm     B7B7     E minorEm   Em9Em9

C majorC      B7B7      E minorEm EmAdd9Emadd9

[Verse 6]
E minorEm        B7B7    E minorEm    EmAdd9Emadd9
She's gone, she's gone God bless her
E minorEm          A minorAm Am6Am6
Where-ever she might be
     E minorEm    B7B7        E minorEm   Em6Em6
If she'd searched this whole world over
  C majorC           B7B7     E minorEm  EmAdd9Emadd9
She wouldn't have found a friend like me

[Verse 7]
E minorEm          B7B7     E minorEm     Em9Em9
Give me my bumps bag cold and my button shoes
E minorEm             A minorAm  Am7Am7 Am6Am6
when you've laid me down to sleep
  E minorEm        B7B7     E minorEm       EmAdd9Emadd9
Put these old guitar picks right up in my lapel
   C majorC       B7B7        E minorEm       EmAdd9Emadd9
And fellas set this old guitar right down by my feet


[Verse 8
E minorEm          B7B7   E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9
Went down to that St. James Infirmary
EmAdd9Emadd9       A minorAm  Amadd6
Heard my sweet baby groan
E minorEm     B7B7     E minorEm   Em9Em9
Nobody down there could cheer me
     C majorC      B7B7      E minorEm EmAdd9Emadd9
'Cause I knowed that she'd soon be gone

[Outro Instrumental]

E minorEm    B7B7   E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9 E minorEm

E minorEm   EmAdd9Emadd9  A minorAm  Am7Am7 Amadd6

E minorEm   B7B7     E minorEm   Em9Em9