The Rose Of Memphis

The Rose Of Memphis - Rodney Crowell

Written by：Rodney Crowell/Guy Clark

I drove all the way from storyville

On a midnight memphis run

From bourbon street to

Beale street straight up highway 61

I was tuned in on radio maybe ten

Miles out of town

When I heard the rose of memhis

Boys that's when I left the ground

I can't go back to storyville way down

There by the sea

Till I can say I got the rose of memphis

Coming home with me

She wrapped her song around my heart

Just like the kudzu vine

That keeps on growing after dark straight up

Some lone some pine

I've got to find that woman now cause

My life ain't complete

Man there ain't nobody out there got

The rose of memphis beat

I can't go back to new orleans that ol' crescent city town

Till I can say I got the rose of memphis

Coming on the rounds

Rose of memphis I love the rose of memphis

Rose of memphis I love the rose of memphis

I love the rose of memphis

Man she sings just like a bird

I swear she makes the sweetest

Sound I think I ever heard

She was born down by

The river that ol' river's in her soul

Man they can't nobody touch her

When the rose is on a roll

I can't get go back to louisiana

By the gulf of Mexico

Till I can say I've got the rose of memphis

Coming home to show

Rose of memphis I love the rose of memphis

Rose of memphis I love the rose of memphis