Walking slow to the graveyard I've lost everything I could lose   Now I've even lost my baby I guess I've got the drunkard's blues   It was down at Big Joe's barroom on the corner beyond the square   Everybody drinkin' good liquor the regular crowd was there   So I strolled out on the sidewalk began to look around   Looking everywhere for my baby but that sweet woman can't be found   It was down at St James infirmary I found my baby there   Stretched out on a long white table so cold so pale so fair   So I strolled back down to the barroom to get another drink of gin   The next thing you know I'm reeling rocking and drunk again   Sixteen coal black horses all hitched up in a line   In that pretty buggy she's ridin' goodbye ol' gal of mine   Walking slow to the graveyard I've lost everything I could lose   Now I've even lost my baby I guess I've got the drunker's blues