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Memphis Blues
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Nat King Cole
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Folks I've just been down, down to Memphis town,
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That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while.
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Hospitality, they were good to me.
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I couldn't spend a dime, and had the grandest time.
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I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear,
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They had a fellow there named Handy with a band you should hear
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And while the folks gently swayed, all the band folks played Real harmony.
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I never will forget the tune that Handy called the Memphis Blues.
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Oh yes, them Blues.
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They've got a fiddler there that always slickens his hair
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And folks he sure do pull some bow.
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And when the big Bassoon seconds to the Trombones croon.
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It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day, on Revival Day.
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Oh that melody sure appealed to me.
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Just like a mountain stream rippling on it seemed.
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Then it slowly died, with a gentle sigh
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Soft as the breeze that whines high in the summer pines.
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Hear me people, hear me people, hear I pray,
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I'm going to take a million lesson's 'til I learn how to play
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Because I seem to hear it yet, simply can't forget
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That blue refrain.
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There's nothing like the Handy Band that played the Memphis Blues so grand.
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Oh play them Blues.
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That melancholy strain, that ever haunting refrain
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Is like a sweet old sorrow song.
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Here comes the very part that wraps a spell around my heart.
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It sets me wild to hear that loving tune a gain,
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The Memphis Blues.
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