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/ White Stripes / The White Stripes (1999) / St. James Infirmary Blues guitar tab

All breaks and note progressions are played over Fm.

INTRO:
Fm
Oh, Koko

 C|-8-5--5-4--4--
F#|--------------
 G|--------------
 C|--------------
 G|--------------
 C|--------------

VERSE 1:
Fm                                 Fm/C  Fm        Fm/C Fm
Well, folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary
      Fm/C Fm          Fm/C Fm
To see       my little lady   there
                               Fm/C Fm
She's stretched out on a long, white table
      Fm/C Fm
Well, she

 C|-------------------------------
F#|-------------------------------
 G|-7--7------5----5--3--3--2--0--
 C|-------------------------------
 G|-------------------------------
 C|-------------------------------
    looks so good, so cold, so fair

VERSE 2:
Let her go, let her go, God bless her
Wherever she may be
You may search this whole wide world over
But you'll never find another sweetheart like me
Yeah,

BREAK 1:
 C|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G#|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 F|-0-3-5-7--5-3-5-7--0-3-5-7--5-3-0--0-3-5-7--12-10-7-5-3--12-12-10-10-7-7-5-5-3-3-2-2-0--
 C|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 F|-0-3-5-7--5-3-5-7--0-3-5-7--5-3-0--0-3-5-7--12-10-7-5-3--12-12-10-10-7-7-5-5-3-3-2-2-0--
 C|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

VERSE 3:
Take apart your bones and put 'em back together
Tell your mama that you're somebody new
Feel the breeze blowin', tell em all, "Look out, here it comes!"
Now, I can say whatever I feel like to you

VERSE 4:
Then give me six crap-shootin' pallbearers
Let a chorus girl sing me a song
Put a red-hot jazz band, we raise`                                     `I'm afraid it's the best I can do to decifer this
Hallelujah as we go along                                               line. I'm all ears if you can understand it better.
Well,

BREAK 2:
 C|----------------------------5---3-5-----------------------------------------
G#|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 F|-0-3-5-7--5-3-5-0--0-3-5-7-----------0-3-5-7--12-10-7-5-3--12-10-7-5-3-2-0--
 C|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 F|-0-3-5-7--5-3-5-7--0-3-5-7--5-3---0--0-3-5-7--12-10-7-5-3--12-10-7-5-3-2-0--
 C|----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 C|--------------------------
G#|--------------------------
 F|--------------------------
 C|-0h1h3-0h1h3-0h1h3-0h1h3--
 F|--------------------------
 C|--------------------------

VERSE 5:
Well, folks, now that you have heard my story
Say, boy, hand me another shot of that rye
And if anyone should ask you
Just tell 'em I

 C|------------------------------------------------------------------------------(-1)--
G#|--------------------------------------------------------(-1)------------------(-1)--
 F|-7-----------5---------3-------2-------0-------(-1)----------(-1)-------------(-1)--
 C|---------------------------------------------------(-1)------------(-1)-------(-1)--
 F|------------------------------------------------------------------------(-1)--(-1)--
 C|------------------------------------------------------------------------------(-1)--
 got some of those St. James Infirmary blues


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2001 White Blood Cells
2000 De Stijl
1999 The White Stripes
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