Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohn)

blue suede shoes

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

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

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

Sun Studio a Union Avenue

Saw the ghost of Elvis
On Union Avenue

the gates of Graceland

Followed him up to the gates of Graceland

Then I watched him walk right through

Elvis tumb

Now security they did not see him
They just hovered 'round his tomb

the Jungle Room

 

But there's a pretty little thing

Waiting for the King

Down in the Jungle Room

catfish on the table

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 boy you've got a prayer in Memphis

the Hollywood

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"