Produced by Polarity/1
P/1: vocals & track
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I went down to St. James Infirmary
60 people were waiting there
It was 8 AM in the morning
And we barely had the cab fare
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I First they handed me a pile of papers
The first page was easy to do
It said who is your health insurer
I wrote ‘none’ and turned to page two
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All the same old questions
I answered 20 times before
Did they ever hear of computers?
This is what they were invented for
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By noon my little girl is bent over
The pain was getting really bad
Babies screamed, people spittin blood
The worst morning we ever had
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The whole emergency unit was spinning
We had nothing to eat all day
By 3:45 she was barely alive
Nobody seemed to look our way
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At 4:30 the doors flew open
Crash victims needed immediate care
The driver of the Benz wasn’t with them
He'll get a private room upstairs
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They finally examined her that evening
They wanted to operate
We can barely pay the mortgage
So the operation had to wait
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I went down to St. James Infirmary
To see my baby there,
She was lyin' on a long white table,
So sweet, so cool, so fair
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We’ll take her out to the graveyard
We’ll all be dressed in black
A family of three driving to a park
Only two of us are coming back
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The preacher preached about caring
Two mourners fell to their knees
Two ghosts haunting the sick and the desperate
You know them – they’re Harry and Louise
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Politicians talk of national health care
They shout America Number One
They get paid to make us laugh at Europe
Only the people can get this done?