Memphis Blues

Memphis Blues - Bessie Smith/Dukes Of Dixieland

Folks I've just been down

Down to Memphis town

That's where the people smile

Smile on you all the while

Hospitality they were good to me

I couldn't spend a dime

And had the grandest time

I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear

They had a fellow there named

Handy with a band you should hear

And while the dancers gently swayed

All the band boys played Real harmony

I never will forget the tune that

Handy called the Memphis Blues

Oh They've got a fiddler there

That always slickens his hair

And folks he sure does pull some bow

Where have

To the Trombones croon

It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day

That melancholy strain

That ever haunting refrain

Is like a morning sorrow song

Here comes the very part

That wraps spell around my heart

It sets me wild to hear that loving tune again

That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain

Is like a morning sorrow song

Here comes the very part

That wraps spell around my heart

It sets me wild to hear that loving tune again

The Memphis Blues