The Memphis Blues (Remastered 2001) chords by Eartha Kitt, Shorty Rogers
Verse 1
D
Em
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D
Eb
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G
C
Folks,
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Bbm
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A
D
I've just been down,
down to Memphis town
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B
C
C#dim
That's where the people smile,
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C
G
Bb
D
smile on you all the while
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D
A
B
Cdim
Hospitality, they were good to me
B
I couldn't spend a dime
and had the grandest time
E
A
I went out a -dancing
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B
E
with a Tennessee deer
A
They had a fella there named Handy
with a band you should hear
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G
A
D
And while the dancers gently swayed,
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A
all the band boys played real harmony
G
D
Bb
I never will forget the tune
Edim
Eb
that Handy called the Memphis
C
G
Cm
C
Gdim
Blues
G
C
They got a fiddler there
that always licks his hair
Am
B
Cdim
C
Gm
And folks, he sure does pull some bow
Bb
F
And when the beat was soon
Adim
Cdim
Ab
G
seconds to the trom
C
F
Ebdim
bone's croon
C
F
Edim
Eb
Ab
G
Ab
G
C
The moon, it moans just like a sinner on Revival Day
Interlude 1
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C
Am
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C
C#dim
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G
D
Ebdim
D
Eb
D
G
D
C
D
G
D
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C
D
Edim
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Eb
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G
C
G
Bb
Am
D
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Edim
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G
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Edim
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Ab
Verse 2
G
Hear me, people, hear me,
C
G
people, hear me, I pray
D
G
I'm gonna take a million lessons
D
G
till I learn how to play
C
Because I seem to hear it yet
Edim
C
Simply can't forget
G
that blues refrain
D
There's nothing like the handy band
C
That played the Memphis
D
G
C
G
blues so grand
C
That melancholy strain
That ever -haunting refrain
Am
C
Is like a morning sorrow song
F
Adim
Here comes the very part
Cdim
G
C
That wraps a spell around my heart
G
Bb
I can't forget the tune
D
F#dim
F
That Handy called the Memphis
C
Ab
Cdim
Ab
blues
Cdim
C
G
I can't forget the tune
Ab
Gsus4
That Handy called the Memphis
G
The map is blue
C
Cdim
C
The Memphis Blues (Remastered 2001)
Eartha Kitt, Shorty Rogers
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