Songs of Love and Death

[mcpye]

From SubVerse, February 6, 2006
St. James Infirmary Blues
www.subverse.org/ 2006/ 02/ 06/ st-james-infirmaryThis is a haunting song. … It’s a song about death. It’s about a man seeing the woman he loves stretched out dead on the hospital slab. But those horns rising and rising…. It’s a song about release. A song about acceptance. A song about

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[mjlayman]

A song about letting go, both her and him, and Joe Kennedy whose girl has dumped him. I used to sing this, never bothered to correct the gender because too often it would make people stop listening and start thinking.