DESCRIPTION:
This live performance was at the Tricou House [711 Bourbon Street, New Orleans] on March 23, 1991.

"SAINT JAMES INFIRMARY" [TRADITIONAL]
Arranged and adapted by DOUG DUFFEY
Performance [C] 1991/2007 Doug Duffey

This song is available on my "DOUG DUFFEY/ TRADITIONAL" CD [2011]- and for digital download- via cdbaby.com, itunes, amazon, rhapsody, etc. THANK YOU for your support- which keeps me doing what i do!
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I've been doing this song for decades. I always wondered who actually wrote it- but its like "House of the Rising Sun" or "Stack-o-lee"- one of those old folk songs that has been passed down and been around forever. There are many pages written about the song online, but, I originally learned the lyrics off an old Bobby Bland LP way back, but later heard and liked the Louis Armstrong version better [which is closer to what I do]- but I don't even sing what he sang... the lyrics i sing have somehow evolved/devolved over the years of my doing it; but there are many versions of the lyrics...