Intro: Am 

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It was down at old Joe's bar room 
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At the corner      by the square 
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They were serving drinks as usual 
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And the usual         crowd was there 
  
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On my left stood big Joe MacKennedy 
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His eyes were bloodshot     red 
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And as he turned to the crowd around him 
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These were the very words he said. 
  
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I went down to St. James Infirmary 
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     I saw my baby          there 
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Stretched out on a long, white table 
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So young, so   cold, so fair 
  
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     Seventeen coal-black horses 
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Hitched to a rubber-tied hack 
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Seven girls goin' to the graveyard 
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Only six of them are coming back 
  

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Let her go. Let her go, God bless her 
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   Wherever she may     be 
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She may search this wide world over 
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And never find another man like me 
  
  
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        When I die just bury me 
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      In my high-top Stetson hat 
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Place a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain 
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My gang will know I died standing pat 
  
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I want six crap-shooters for my pallbearers 
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A Chorus girl to sing me a   song 
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Put a jazz band on my hearse wagon 
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To raise hell as we roll along 

  
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Let her go. Let her go, God bless her 
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   Wherever she may     be 
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She may search this wide world over 
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And never find sweet man like me 
  
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     Now that you've heard my story 
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      I'll take another shot of       booze 
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       And if anyone here should ask you  
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    I've got the gambler's blues 
  
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Let her go. Let her go, God bless her 
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   Wherever she may     be 
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She may search this wide world over 
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And never find sweet man like me