Memphis blues chords by
Bing Crosby

N/A

Key: Eb major

Intro 1

Verse 1
E E 
 
A A 
 
Folks,
I've just been down, down to
Memphis town
D D 
 
That's where the people smile, smile
on you all the while
A A 
 
Hospitality, man, it was good to me
D D 
 
F# F# 
 
I  couldn't spend a dime,
Hadn't it rather's time.
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
I  went out a -dancin' with a
Tennessee deer,
E E 
 
Met a man named
Handy with a band you should hear,
A A 
 
And while the dancers swayed,
D D 
 
A A 
 
All the fellas played real harmony.
D D 
 
A A 
 
I  never will forget the
tune they call the
Memphis
D D 
 
A A 
 
Blues.
D D 
 
They got a fiddler there who always slickens his hair,
folks he sure does pull a mean blow.
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
And when the big bassoon second
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
s to the trombone's crew
A A 
 
E E 
 
It moans just like a  sinner on
A A 
 
D D 
 
Fdim Fdim 
 
D D 
 
revival day
A A 
 
D D 
 
That melancholy strain,
every haunting refrain
It's like a southern sorrow song
G G 
 
Here comes the very part
D D 
 
C C 
 
D D 
 
Wraps a  spell around my heart
A A 
 
It sets  me wild
D D 
 
To hear that lovin' tune again
G G 
 
A A 
 
D D 
 
A A 
 
The glyph is blue
D D 
 
G G 
 
Mississippi
River
Long, deep, and wide
D D 
 
Got myself a rowboat and I
G G 
 
pulled for the other side
C C 
 
Cm Cm 
 
And  when I heard the music I
D D 
 
G G 
 
A A 
 
G G 
 
could lay it right down and die
D D 
 
Oh, you should have heard the singing
Come floating out across
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
the tide
E E 
 
Get on your fanciest dancing shoes an
Em Em 
 
A A 
 
Edim Edim 
 
d ask the leader to play   the blues, the
G G 
 
B B 
 
Fdim Fdim 
 
M  -E -N -P -H     -I -S
E E 
 
A A 
 
Boy, I'm in the
D D 
 
Memphis blues

Interlude 1

Verse 2

I'm in the

Memphis blues and blues

Thank you, Ella.

Verse 3
Thank you,
folks.
Thanks also to the
Firehouse
Five, too,
for some mighty fine blasting there.

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TunerE A D G B E

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