[Dixielandjazz] Saint james Infirmary

[Mike Durham]

Hi Bill: well, I did have my tongue in my cheek when I wrote that, but 
that's what Charlie Teagarden sings, and I'll tell you, it don't sound at 
all bad!

Who was that masked man with the white hat and the big dictionary?

Hypothetically Conditionally Yours, the Lone Pedant

(Hi Yo, Silver)

>From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>To: mikedurham_jazz at hotmail.com, dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Saint james Infirmary
>Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 01:57:07 +0000
>
>Hi Mike and all,
>
>Gadzooks . . . we're looking for logic and order in the artform.
>
>>Let her go, let her go, God bless her,
>>Wherever she may be
>>She may search this wide world over,
>>But she'll never find a sweet man like me.
>>
>>How can a dead woman go searching anywhere? Well, Little T (at 15) must 
>>have shared my concern, cos he sings:
>>
>>Let her go, let her go, God bless her,
>>Wherever she may be
>>She could have searched this wide world over
>>She would never have found a sweet man like me.
>
>Somehow the amended version seems virtually like a grammar lesson. You have 
>decided to use the hypothetical conditional form which is pretty elegant.  
>But it don't sound properly "bluesy" to me in that form.
>
>By the way, I like to sing it thusly:
>
>"She may search this wide world all over
>(double time in the rhythm section here) Lord she'll never find another 
>sweet man (back to original beat) like me" . . . it adds a bit of sauciness 
>to an otherwise straight blues feel.
>
>Respectfully submitted,
>
>Bill "Down at St. Jame Infirmary" Gunter
>jazzboard at hotmail.com
>

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