102. Walking
In Memphis
(Marc Cohn)
Put on
my blue
suede shoes and I
boarded the plane.
Touched down
in the land
of the Delta Blues
in the middle
of the pouring rain.
W.C. Handy
won't you
look down over me?
Yeah, I got a
first class ticket
but I'm as blue
as a boy can be.
Then I'm
walking in Memphis,
is walking with my
feet ten feet off of Beale.
Walking in Memphis,
but do I really
feel the way I feel?
I saw the ghost of Elvis
on Union Avenue,
followed him up
to the gates of Graceland,
then I watched him
walk right through.
Now security
they did not see him,
they just hovered
'round his tomb,
but there's a
pretty little thing,
waiting for the King
down in the Jungle Room.
When I
was
walking in Memphis,
I was walking with my
feet ten feet off of Beale.
Walking in Memphis,
but do I really
feel the way I feel?
They've got
catfish on the table,
they've got
gospel in the air.
And Reverend Green
be glad to see you
when you haven't
got a prayer.
But boy you've got a
prayer in Memphis.
Now Muriel
plays piano,
every Friday
at the Hollywood.
And they brought me
down to see her
and they asked me if I would
do a little number,
and I sang with all my might.
She said,
"Tell me are you
a Christian child?"
and I said
"Ma'am I am tonight".
//:Walking
in Memphis,
I was walking with my
feet ten feet off of Beale.
Walking in Memphis,
but do I really feel the
way I feel?://(Repetera)
Put on
my blue
suede shoes and I
boarded the plane.
//:Touched
down in the land
of the Delta Blues
in the middle of the
pouring rain://