Memphis Flash chords by Steve Gibbons Band

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Verse 1
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Hey kid, where are heading?
Oh yeah?
You're in a rock and roll band?
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Okay, climb aboard.
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See you got your guitar.
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Yeah, a lot of guys get stranded
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at that crossroads.
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You ain't got too far to travel by the way,
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it's just down the road a piece
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But before we go forward,
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I'm gonna take you back
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To where this rocky rollin' road
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was nothin' more than a winin' track
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And the winin' track
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kinda threaded its way
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from the country into town
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Eventually it hit the main drag,
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which is where we're headin'
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right now
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So watch out for the kid,
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he'll be drivin' a pickup truck
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Yeah, there he is, that's him
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There he is behind the
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wheel about 1953
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Drivin' that truck down to Union Avenue
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in Memphis, Tennessee
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He stopped outside of the studio
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there to make a record for his mom
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In fifteen minutes he laid
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one down
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and said thank you ma 'am,
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he was gone solid.
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Well the girl who worked
behind the desk,
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she must have liked the way he looked.
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She liked the way he sang as well,
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she put his number down
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in the book.
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And sometime later when Sam the boss
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was looking for somebody to sing,
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she suggested they called up the kid
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to come down and do his thing.
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Now, he was there in a flash
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Sam said, wow!
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Look at them sideburns,
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look at that suit
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Get a load of that face,
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this boy's a beauty
He'd never seen anything
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like the Memphis Flash
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What do you know, son?
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Well, it turns out he knew plenty
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And he went through his repertoire
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Didn't take Sam long to realize
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he'd found himself a star
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The kid could sing real pretty all right,
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but it needed something more
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So Sam called in a couple session cats,
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Bill Black and Scotty Moore
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And  they said Wow
Look at them sideburns,
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look at that suit,
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get a load of that voice
This boy's good,
they ain't never seen anybody
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like the man they smash
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Well they kicked things around
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for a couple of days
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but they didn't get nothing hot
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Sam was looking for a certain sound
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but he wasn't certain what
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Then the kids started goofing around
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with an old blues song he knew
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Sounded pretty good,
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so Bill and Scotty joined in, too
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Hey, that's all right
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Hey, what's that thing you're play
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ing out there?
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Whatever it is, don't stop
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Just give me a minute to rewind here
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And we'll take it from the top
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When they did, he flipped his lid
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Eureka, he was heard to wail
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Well, if he did what he should've done,
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cause he found the holy grail
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Magical, mystical, beautiful, rock and roll,
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paper load, big sensation
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Tore him up, across the nation
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By now he's, uh, well, he's, uh
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Trammeling the thighbone,
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swiveling the hip
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Shivering the backbone,
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quivering the lip
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Nobody ever sees a minifig
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like the Minifig Splash
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Yes, he's, trammeling the thighbone,
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swiveling the hip
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Shivering the backbone, quivering the lip
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The big wide world is waiting
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for the Minifig Splash
Well, that's the story, kid
See that ol' junkyard across the street
I bet you his old pick -up's
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in there someplace
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Holdin' up all them old Cadillacs
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Shame, ain't it? See ya kid,