Walking In Memphis Lyrics

Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis Lyrics

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Walking In Memphis Lyrics

Put on my blue suede shoes

And I boarded the plane

Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues

In the middle of the pouring rain

W.C. Handy -- won't you look down over me

Cause I got a first class ticket

But I'm as blue as a boy can be



Walking in Memphis

Walking with my feet ten feet off of the Beale

Walking in Memphis

Do I really feel the way I feel



Saw the ghost of Elvis

On Union Avenue

Followed him up to the gates of Graceland

Then I watched him walk right through

Now security they did not see him

They just hovered 'round his tomb

But there's a pretty little thing

Waiting on the King

Down in the Jungle Room



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They've got catfish on the table

They've got gospel in the air

And Reverend Green be glad to see you

When you haven't got a prayer

But you got a prayer in Memphis



Now Muriel plays piano

Every Friday at the Hollywood

And they brought me down to see her

And they asked me if I would --

Do a little number

And I sang with all my might

And she said --

"Tell me are you a Christian child?"

And I said "Ma'am I am tonight"



(Chorus)



Put on my blue suede shoes

And I boarded the plane

Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues

In the middle of the pouring rain

Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues

In the middle of the pouring rain