The Memphis Blues-Eartha Kitt

[ti:The Memphis Blues] [ar:Eartha Kitt] [al:Heavenly Eartha] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Memphis Blues - Eartha Kitt [00:10.64]Folks I've just been down [00:12.84]Down to memphis town [00:14.44]That's where the people smile [00:16.89]Smile on you all the while [00:19.30]Hospitality they were good to me [00:23.77]I couldn't spend a dime [00:25.76]And had the grandest time [00:27.89]I went out a dancing [00:29.65]With a tennessee dear [00:31.46]They had a fellow there named handy [00:33.70]With a band you should hear [00:35.90]And while the dance gently swayed [00:39.31]All the band boys played real harmony [00:43.73] [00:44.82]I never will forget the tune [00:47.51]That handy called the memphis blues [00:53.15] [00:53.99]They've got a fiddler there [00:56.10]That always slickens his hair [00:58.21]And folks he sure does pull some bow [01:02.47]And when the big bassoon seconds [01:06.17]To the trombones croon [01:11.51]It moans just like a sinner on revival day [01:21.00] [02:14.35]Hear me people hear me people [02:16.32]Hear me I pray [02:17.75]I'm going to take a million lesson's [02:20.28]Till I learn how to play [02:22.51]Because I seem to hear it yet [02:25.06] [02:25.74]Simply can't forget [02:27.42]That blue refrain [02:31.19]There's nothing like the handy band [02:34.15]That played the memphis blues so grand [02:39.67] [02:40.42]That melancholy strain [02:42.46]That ever haunting refrain [02:44.39]Is like a morning sorrow song [02:49.04]Here comes the very part [02:51.48] [02:52.08]That wraps a spell around my heart [02:57.70] [02:58.26]I can forget the tune [03:00.71]That handy called the memphis blues [03:07.17]I can forget the tune [03:10.02]That handy called the memphis [03:15.05] [03:15.66]The memphis blues