Walking in Memphis
LoneStar

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___Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the plane, _____Touched down in the land of the Delta
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Blues, In the middle of the pouring rain, _________W.C. __Handy, _____ won?t you look down over
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Me? ______Yeah, I got a first class ticket, _______but I'm as blue as a boy can be,


[Chorus]
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Then I'm walking in Memphis, _______I was walking with my feet ten feet off Beale,
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  Walking in Memphis, __________But do ___I really feel the way I feel ___________


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____Saw the ghost of Elvis,______on Union Ave--nue, ______Followed him up to the gates of
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Graceland, Then I watched him walk right through, _______now, security they did not see him _____
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They just hovered around his tomb, ______but there's a pretty little thing waiting for the King,
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Down in the jungle room,


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Then I'm walking in Memphis, _______I was walking with my feet ten feet off Beale,
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 Walking in Memphis, __________But do ___I really feel the way I feel ___________


[Bridge]
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They've got __catfish on the table _________ they've got __ gospel in the air _______ And Reverend
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Green, be glad to see you, When you haven't got a pray---er, you got a prayer in Memphis,



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Now, Muriel plays the piano, ______every Friday at the Holly?wood _____and they brought me
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down to see her ______ And they asked me if I would, __________Do a little number, _____and I sang
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with all my might ______ She said Tell me, are you a Christian And I said Ma'am, I am tonight,


[Chorus]
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Then I'm walking in Memphis, _______I was walking with my feet ten feet off Beale,
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 Walking in Memphis, __________But do ___I really feel the way I feel
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Then I'm walking in Memphis, _______I was walking with my feet ten feet off Beale,
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 Walking in Memphis, __________But do ___I really feel the way I feel
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Walking in Memphis, ___Oh _________________

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