Tip jar out on a Bayou street
Blues man strumming that slide guitar
Motown drummer with a Detroit beat
Making ends meet playing in a rock 'n roll bar

Uptown
Downtown
Up North
Down South

Roots spread wide from that ground
And that Mississippi river sound

Never left Memphis
Its on the streets of Beale and BB’s hands up in heaven
Never left Memphis
Its out on mud island and in the moonlight there’s sun records
Shining for the whole world
Through every twist and every turn
It's where everybody goes
'Cause everybody knows the Graceland ghost of Elvis
Never left Memphis
Never left Memphis

From Gainesville west to Muscle Shoals
To the shores on the coast of California
Midwest roads from Chicago
Rode all the way down to Texas

And never left Memphis
Its on the streets of Beale and BB’s hands up in heaven
Never left Memphis
Its out on mud island and in the moonlight there’s sun records
Shining for the whole world
Through every twist and every turn
It's where everybody goes
'Cause everybody knows the Graceland ghost of Elvis
Never left Memphis
Never left Memphis

Uptown
Downtown
Up North
Down South

Roots spread wide from that ground
And that Mississippi river sound

Never left Memphis
It's on the streets of Beale and BB’s hands up in heaven
Never left Memphis
Its out on mud island and in the moonlight there’s sun records
Shining for the whole world
Through every twist and every turn
It's where everybody goes
'Cause everybody knows the Graceland ghost of Elvis
Never left Memphis
Never left Memphis