The Memphis Blues - Eartha Kitt

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 there named Handy

With a band you should hear

And while the dance gently swayed

All the band folks played Real harmony

I never will forget the tune

That Handy called the Memphis Blues

They've got a fiddler there

That always slickens his hair

And folks he sure do pull some bow

And when the big Bassoon seconds

To the Trombones croon

It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day

Hear me people hear me people hear me I pray

I'm going to take a million lesson's

Til I learn how to play

Because I seem to hear it yet

Simply can't forget

That blue refrain

There's nothing like the Handy Band

That played the Memphis Blues so grand

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

I can forget the tune

That Handy called the Memphis Blues

I can forget the tune

That Handy called the Memphis

Memphis Blues