Ramblin' Blues

Ramblin' Blues - Charlie Poole

I've seen the life of old gay Broadway

Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay

Saw the Prado I've gambled all these parts

In Paris France

Now the seven wonders of this world I've seen

There's many other different places I have been

Take my advice folks we've seen where

Beale Street was

It's in Memphis Tennessee

Oh your Nehi mama browns beautiful gowns

Make tailor mades and your hand me downs

You'll meet honest men and pickpockets too

But your business never closes till somebody gets killed

Oh your Nehi mama browns chittling cafes

Talk about your whiskey and your bygone days

Be not offend I've got it to spend

You'll find gold enough along to pave the new Jerusalem

If Beale Street could talk if Beale Street could talk

Married men would have to pick their bed up and walk

All except one or two who never drink booze

And the blind man on the corner

Who sings the Memphis Blues

I'd rather be here than any place I know

I'd rather be here than any place I know

For it's gonna take a sergeant for to make me go

Now we see the river baby by and by

See the river Mississippi I'll tell the reason why

For the river's wet

And Beale Street's done gone dry bone dry