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Down the Mississippi where the water gets muddy |
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Forty-four school where the kids don't study |
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Well they all hang around at the root of |
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Beale Street |
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Oh that's where they hear that |
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Memhpis Beat |
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I'm goin' to |
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Memphis where the beat is tough |
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Memphis I can't get enough |
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It makes you tremble and it makes you weak gets in your blood that |
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Memphis Beat |
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Whoo they're hitchhikin' here from |
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California ride on a |
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Honda from |
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Arizona Houston |
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Boston Kansas |
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City New Orleans and a doo wa diddy |
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Oh I'm goin' to |
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Memphis... [ piano - guitar ] |
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Well people come a ridin' a walkin' a swimmin' |
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Got a little chance at them good lookin' women |
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Oh they march on down to the foot of |
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Beale Street |
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Ah then dance all night to that |
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Memphis Beat |
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Oh I'm goin' to |
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Memphis...... |
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Oh come on now let's go to |
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Memphis Where the beat is tough |
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I can't get enough |
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I gotta get back there |
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I gotta get back there |