Folks,
I've just been down, down to
Memphis town
That's where the people smile, smile
on you all the while
Hospitality, man, it was good to me
I couldn't spend a dime,
Hadn't it rather's time.
I went out a -dancin' with a
Tennessee deer,
Met a man named
Handy with a band you should hear,
And while the dancers swayed,
All the fellas played real harmony.
I never will forget the
tune they call the
Memphis
Blues.
They got a fiddler there who always slickens his hair,
folks he sure does pull a mean blow.
And when the big bassoon second
s to the trombone's crew
It moans just like a sinner on
revival day
That melancholy strain,
every haunting refrain
It's like a southern sorrow song
Here comes the very part
Wraps a spell around my heart
It sets me wild
To hear that lovin' tune again
The glyph is blue
Mississippi
River
Long, deep, and wide
Got myself a rowboat and I
pulled for the other side
And when I heard the music I
could lay it right down and die
Oh, you should have heard the singing
Come floating out across
the tide
Get on your fanciest dancing shoes an
d ask the leader to play the blues, the
M -E -N -P -H -I -S
Boy, I'm in the
Memphis blues