The Memphis Blues-Eartha Kitt/Shorty Rogers

[ti:The Memphis Blues] [ar:Eartha Kitt/Shorty Rogers] [al:Broken Colour] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Memphis Blues - Eartha Kitt/Shorty Rogers [00:05.08]Written by：W.C. Handy/George A. Norton [00:10.16]Folks I've just been down [00:11.94] [00:12.58]Down to memphis town [00:14.29]That's where the people smile [00:16.53]Smile on you all the while [00:19.01]Hospitality [00:20.82] [00:21.39]They were good to me [00:23.41]I couldn't spend a dime [00:25.38]And had the grandest time [00:27.56]I went out a dancing [00:29.35]With a tennessee dear [00:31.14]They had a fella there named handy [00:33.66]With a band you should hear [00:35.49]And while the dancers gently swayed [00:38.87]All the band boys played [00:40.70]Real harmony [00:43.88] [00:44.49]I never will forget [00:46.65]The tune that handy called the memphis blues [00:52.86] [00:53.38]The got a fiddler there [00:55.77]That always slickens his hair [00:57.64]And folks he sure does pull some bow [01:02.10]And when the big bassoon [01:04.46] [01:05.01]Seconds to the trombone's croon [01:11.28]And moans just like a sinner on revival day [01:19.92] [02:13.52]Here me people hear me people hear me I pray [02:17.23]I'm gonna take a million lessons 'til I learn how to play [02:21.65]Because I seem to hear it yet [02:24.13] [02:25.12]Simply can't forget that blues refrain [02:30.63]There's nothing like a handy band [02:33.29]That played the memphis blues so grand [02:38.83] [02:39.74]That melancholy strain [02:41.98]Ever haunting refrain [02:44.01]Is like a morning sorrow song [02:48.45]Here comes the very part [02:51.34]That wraps it's spell around my heart [02:56.96] [02:57.52]I can't forget the tune [03:00.23]That handy called the memphis blues [03:06.50]I can't forget the tune [03:08.80] [03:09.34]That handy called the memphis [03:14.65]The memphis blues