Folks I've just been down, down to Memphis town That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while Hospitality, they were good to me I couldn't spend a dime and had the grandest time I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear They had a fellow named Handy with a band you should hear And while the folks gently swayed All them boys began to play in real harmony I never will forget that tune they call Handy's Memphis Blues, oh yes, those blues They've got a trumpet man leading the band And folks, he sure blow some horn And when the clarinet seconds to the trombones croon It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain Is like a morning sorrow song Here comes the very part that wraps a spell around my heart It sets me wild to hear that loving tune again, those Memphis Blues
Folks I've just been down, down to Memphis town That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while Hospitality, they were good to me I couldn't spend a dime and had the grandest time I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear They had a fellow named Handy with a band you should hear And while the folks gently swayed All them boys began to play in real harmony I never will forget that tune they call Handy's Memphis Blues, oh yes, those blues They've got a trumpet man leading the band And folks, he sure blow some horn And when the clarinet seconds to the trombones croon It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain Is like a morning sorrow song Here comes the very part that wraps a spell around my heart It sets me wild to hear that loving tune again, those Memphis Blues
