Bing introduces Memphis Blues chords by Bing Crosby

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A
D
Bm
F#
B
E
G
Gm
Fdim
C
Cm
Em
Edim

Verse 1
A 
D 
Bm 
D 
A 
Folks I've just been down,
down to Memphis town,
D 
That's where the people smile,
smile on you all the while.
A 
Hospitality, they were good to me.
D 
F# 
I couldn't spend a dime,
and had the grandest time.
B 
F# 
B 
I  went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear,
E 
They had a fellow there named Handy
with a band you should hear
A 
And while the folks gently swayed,
D 
A 
D 
all the band folks played Real harmony.
A 
I never will forget the tune
that Handy called the Memphis Blues.
D 
A 
Oh yes, them Blues.
D 
They've got a fiddler there that always

Verse 2
D 
slickens his hair
And folks he sure do pull some bow.
G 
Bm 
And when the big Bassoon
G 
Gm 
D 
seconds to the Trombones croon.
A 
E 
A 
D 
It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day,
on Revival Day.
Fdim 
D 
Oh

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Verse 3
A 
D 
that melody
sure appealed to me.
G 
Just like a mountain stream rippling
D 
C 
D 
on it seemed.
A 
D 
G 
D 
Then it slowly died, with a gentle sigh
A 
G 
Soft as the breeze that whines
D 
high in the summer pines.
G 
Hear me people,
C 
hear me people, hear I pray,
Cm 
D 
G 
I'm going to take a  million
D 
lesson's  'til I learn how to play
G 
Em 
D 
G 
E 
Because I  seem to hear it yet,
Em 
simply can't forget
A 
Edim 
That blue refrain.

Verse 4
G 
B 
Fdim 
There's nothing like the Handy Band that played
E 
A 
D 
G 
the Memphis Blues so grand.
Oh play them Blues.
D 
G 
That melancholy strain, that
ever haunting refrain
Is like a sweet old sorrow song.
Here comes the very part
that wraps a spell around my heart.
It sets me wild to hear that loving tune
a gain, the Memphis Blues.