Key: C major
Verse 1
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Am
C
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The Ragman
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Am
The ragman he draws circles
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Am
Up and down the block
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Am
I'd ask him what the matter was
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G
But I know that he don't talk
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C
And the ladies treat me kindly
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Am
C
But deep inside my heart,
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C
I know I can't escape
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Am
To be stuck inside a mobile
G
C
F
again
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Am
Shakespeare, he's in the alley
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Am
With his pointed shoes and his bells
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Am
Speaking to some French girl
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G
Who says she knows me well
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C
And I would send a message
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C
To find out if she's talked
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C
But the post office has been stolen
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C
And the mailbox is locked
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G
Am
To be stuck inside a mobile
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G
C
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F
with the Memphis blues again
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Am
Mona tried to tell me
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Am
to stay away from the train line
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Am
She said that all those railroad men,
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Dm
G
they drink up your blood like wine
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C
And I said I didn't know that,
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C
then again there's only one I've met
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And he just smoked my eyelids,
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C
and he punched my cigarette
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Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile
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G
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F
with the Memphis Blues again?
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Am
Grandpa, he died last week,
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Am
and now he's buried in the rocks
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Am
And everyone still talks about
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G
how badly they were shocked
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Am
I knew he'd lose control
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Am
When he built a fire on Main Street,
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F
Dm
C
and he shot it full of holes
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G
Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile
Dm
F
G
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G
with the Memphis Blues again
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Eb
C
Now the senator,
Am
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Handing out free tickets
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G
To the wedding of his son
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Am
C
And wouldn't it be my luck
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C
To be caught without a ticket
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and be discovered
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C
beneath a truck
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G
Am
To be stuck inside a mo bile
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G
C
with the Memphis Crews again
Eb
C
Now the cheap preacher,
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Am
When I asked him why he dressed
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Am
With twenty pounds of headlines
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F
And he cursed me when I proved to him
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Am
And then I whispered, said,
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C
You see, you're just like me
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C
And I hope you're satisfied
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G
Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile
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C
with the Memphis Blues again
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C
Am
Now the rain man gave me two cures
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Am
And he said, jump right in
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F
Dm
G
and the other was just real gin
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C
And like a fool I mixed them,
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C
and it strangled up my mind
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F
C
and I have no sense of time
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G
Am
To be stuck inside a mobile
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F
G
C
G
with the Memphis blues again
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Eb
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Am
Now when Neitha says come see her
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Am
In her honky -tonk lagoon
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Am
Where I can watch her waltz for free
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G
Neitha and I'm out of your mood
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Am
You know you know about
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C
But I know what you want
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C
G
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To be stuck inside a mo bile
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G
C
with the Memphis Blues again
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Now the bricks,
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Am
Where the neon madmen climb
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G
And it all seems so well -timed
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Am
Waiting to find out what price
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Am
C
You have to pay to get out of going
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C
through all of these things twice
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G
Am
To be stuck inside a mobile
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G
C
with the Memphis blues again
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C
G
Am
Stuck inside of Mobile
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with the Memphis Blues again
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