Walking In Memphis
[Update: Joni Mitchell has a different – richer – take on Beale Street: listen to Furry Sings the Blues (1976)
Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohn (1991) listen)
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
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I’m as blue as a boy can be
[Chorus]
Then I’m walking in Memphis
Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale
Walking in Memphis
But do I really feel the way I feel …
the other side of Memphis
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Now Murial 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”