Merle Travis - Memphis Blues lyrics

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Folks, I've just been down, down to Memphis Town<br />

That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while<br />

Hospitality, they were good to me<br />

I couldn't spend a dime and had the grandest time<br />

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I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear<br />

They had a fellow named Handy with a band you should hear<br />

And while the folks gently swayed<br />

All them boys began to play in real harmony<br />

I never will forget that tune they call<br />

Handy's Memphis Blues, oh yes, those blues<br />

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They've got a trumpet man leading the band<br />

And folks, he sure blow some horn<br />

And when the clarinet seconds to the trombones croon<br />

It moans just like a sinner on revival day<br />

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That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain<br />

Is like a morning sorrow song<br />

Here comes the very part that wraps a spell around my heart<br />

It sets me wild to hear that loving tune again, those Memphis Blues