[ti:The Memphis Blues]
[ar:Eartha Kitt]
[al:St. Louis Blues]
[by:]
[00:00.00]The Memphis Blues - Eartha Kitt
[00:10.65]Folks I've just been down
[00:13.02]Down to Memphis town
[00:14.90]That's where the people smile
[00:17.10]Smile on you all the while
[00:19.78]Hospitality they were good to me
[00:24.10]I couldn't spend a dime
[00:25.92]And had the grandest time
[00:28.10]I went out a dancing
[00:29.70]With a Tennessee dear
[00:31.65]They had a fellow there named Handy
[00:33.95]With a band you should hear
[00:36.09]And while the dance gently swayed
[00:39.37]All the band boys played real harmony
[00:45.05]I never will forget the tune
[00:47.79]That Handy called the Memphis Blues
[00:53.90]They got a fiddler there
[00:56.20]That always slickens his hair
[00:58.34]And folks he sure does pull some bow
[01:02.75]And when the big Bassoon
[01:05.58]Seconds to the Trombones croon
[01:11.52]It moans just like a sinner
[01:14.89]On Revival Day
[02:14.21]Hear me people
[02:15.28]Hear me people
[02:16.36]Hear me I pray
[02:17.79]I'm gonna take a million lesson's
[02:20.17]'Til I learn how to play
[02:22.36]Because I seem to hear it yet
[02:25.65]Simply can't forget
[02:27.28]That blue refrain
[02:31.17]There's nothing like the Handy Band
[02:33.92]That played the Memphis Blues so grand
[02:40.21]That melancholy strain
[02:42.35]That ever haunting refrain
[02:44.55]Is like a morning sorrow song
[02:48.97]Here comes the very part
[02:51.76]That wraps a spell around my heart
[02:58.05]I can't forget the tune
[03:00.82]That Handy called the Memphis Blues
[03:06.97]I can't forget the tune
[03:09.71]That Handy called the Memphis
[03:15.48]The Memphis Blues