The Memphis Blues-Eartha Kitt/Shorty Rogers and His Orchestra

[ti:The Memphis Blues] [ar:Eartha Kitt] [al:The Essential Eartha Kitt] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Memphis Blues - Eartha Kitt/Shorty Rogers and His Orchestra [00:10.54]Folks I've just been down [00:12.32] [00:12.98]Down to Memphis town [00:14.93]That's where the people smile [00:17.08]Smile on you all the while [00:18.93] [00:19.48]Hospitality they were good to me [00:23.39] [00:23.92]I couldn't spend a dime [00:25.96]And had the grandest time [00:27.92]I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear [00:31.54]They had a fellow there named Handy [00:33.92]With a band you should hear [00:36.05]And while the dance gently swayed [00:38.92] [00:39.43]All the band folks played Real harmony [00:43.95] [00:44.85]I never will forget the tune [00:47.65]That Handy called the Memphis Blues [00:52.41] [00:53.92]They've got a fiddler there [00:55.98]That always slickens his hair [00:58.24]And folks he sure do pull some bow [01:02.62]And when the big Bassoon seconds [01:05.94]To the Trombones croon [01:10.34] [01:11.55]It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day [01:19.29] [02:14.07]Hear me people hear me people hear me I pray [02:17.58]I'm going to take a million lesson's [02:20.02]Til I learn how to play [02:22.21]Because I seem to hear it yet [02:24.53] [02:25.39]Simply can't forget [02:27.20]That blue refrain [02:30.90]There's nothing like the Handy Band [02:33.82]That played the Memphis Blues so grand [02:39.26] [02:40.06]That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain [02:44.31]Is like a morning sorrow song [02:48.81]Here comes the very part [02:50.75] [02:51.35]That wraps a spell around my heart [02:57.22] [02:57.86]I can forget the tune [02:59.84] [03:00.52]That Handy called the Memphis Blues [03:05.57] [03:06.80]I can forget the tune [03:08.71] [03:09.40]That Handy called the Memphis [03:14.53] [03:15.21]Memphis Blues