Talk:St. James Infirmary Blues alternate lyrics

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I saw/heard Arlo Guthrie sing this last night on a TV PBS station and decided to learn it.

In my edit of the lyrics, hag becomes hack, a type of horse-drawn taxi and rhyming with 'back'.

standing there becomes standing pat, a gambling reference, rhyming with 'hat and leading thematically to crapshooters in the first line of the next verse , which itself is contracted to a single word.

Stetson is a proper noun so it is capitalized.

Great song.

- boris@ Undergroundairways (talk) 01:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)