Biography:
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was a jazz singer, bandleader, composer and actor. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer.
Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular big bands, Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, from the start of the 1930s through to the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Doc Cheatham
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4/4 Slow Blues.
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[Vocal Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I went down to St James Infirmary
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Saw my baby there
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She was stretched out on a long white table
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So cold so sweet so fair
[Verse 2]
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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 can look this wide world over
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But she'll never find a sweet man like me
[Verse 3]
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When I die bury me in strait laced shoes
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I want a Boxback coat and a Stetson hat
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Put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain
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So the boys will know that I died standin' pat
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Cactus Attack
Cadence Kid
Cady Groves
Caedmons Call
Caesars
Cake
Cake Bake Betty
Calabrese
Calcum Scott
Calcutta