Hoy le toca el turno a una canción de Louis Armstrong. En 1929 grabó este tema basado en una canción inglesa a la que cambió el argumento. La canción original trataba de un marinero que gasta su dinero en los barrios bajos y muere por una enfermedad venérea, mientas que esta versión trata de un hombre que va al hospital a ver a su novia.
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - St. James Infirmary Blues
I went down to the st james infirmary
saw my baby there
she 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
When i die want you to dress me in straight lace shoes
i wanna a boxback coat and a stetson hat
put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain
so the boys'll know that i died standing flat
saw my baby there
she 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
When i die want you to dress me in straight lace shoes
i wanna a boxback coat and a stetson hat
put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain
so the boys'll know that i died standing flat
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