They never made it to memphis chords by Juice Newton

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Well,  (C major)  (F major)  (C major) left
St.
Louis in a
Pontiac
Dambus
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 (F major) And her  (C major) roadmap opened  (F major) in red
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 (C major) But  (F major) do you remember?
She was smokin' down the
highway in her blue
Cadillac
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Smiled  (C major) at
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Sylvester,  (F major) she  (C major) smiled back (F major) 
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And  (G major) made a little stop at the dog cafe
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Oh, the  (C major) pink black coffee
were the hours away
She said, I'm gonna see
Elvis, make my dreams come true
He said, I can't believe it,
it's my dream too
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Then  (F major) they started talking
about the money they saved
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They  (C major) rode together for
the rest of the way
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Star (G major) ted to throw a penny
in a wishing well
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They set out  (C major) in the yard of a local motel
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They never made it  (F major) to
Memphis
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They never saw the key  (C major) 
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He saw a chance in heav (G major) en
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She saw a wedding ring  (C major) 
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They found a wishing well watered  (F major) 
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They did it all in a day  (C major) 
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They never made it  (G major) to
Memphis
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Hell, but they came  (C major)  (C minor)  (C major) 
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 (C minor)  (F major)  (C major)  (F major)  (C major) 
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 (G major)  (C major) 
We couldn't understand
where the time had flown
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It was 1990, heavy kids were grown  (F major) 
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 (G major) One  (F major) day she admitted she still had a dream
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 (B flat major) Of  (C major) heading down  (G major)  (C major) south to see
the home of the king
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They  (F major)  (G major) packed off the dogs to old
Lanny
Cates
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And they  (C major) headed down to
Graceland, one day as they are
Well, as soon as they hit that open road
Every twist and turn
reminded him of long ago
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He was  (F major) thinkin' about the
kisses that he used to steal
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Gettin'  (C major) really hard to keep
his hands on the wheel
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She looked as  (G major) good to him now
as she did back then
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They were  (C major) sweet sixteen all  (F major)  (G major) over  (C major) again
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They never made it  (F major) to
Memphis
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They never made the key  (C major) 
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They met a little de (G major) tour,
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a dairy queen  (C major) 
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They found a wishing well motel,  (F major) 
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they did it all the day  (C major) 
They never made it to
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Mem (G major) phis, they didn't care  (C major) 
They never made it to
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Mem (G major) phis, they didn't care
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 (C major) They never made it to
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Mem (G major) phis
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Yeah, yeah,  (F major) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Yeah  (B flat major) 