Down In Memphis Lyrics - The Road From Memphis - Booker T.

Doin' it in the heat 

Learning how to walk the beat 

Laying it down again 

Taking it on the chin 

Heading for the darkest club 

Down on Beale Street 

Playing that funky music 

Drinking that funky gin 

Gotta be a pistol 

Gotta be a gun 

Gotta be one strange phenomenon 

Down in Memphis 

Yeah Memphis Tennessee 

Memphis Tennessee 

Gotta see a new woman over in Klondike 

Ten minutes in the Thunderbird 

Running on the turnpike 

I gotta pay union dues 

Make me wanna to sing the blues 

I can't be a winner now 

'Cause I'm born to lose 

Down in Memphis 

Yeah Memphis Tennessee 

Memphis Tennessee 

Down in Memphis, Memphis 

Yeah 

Doing it, doing it 

Gotta shine shoes 

Down on Fourth and Walker 

Out on Peggy's Patio 

For some sweet talker 

Spend your easy nights 

Out in Mallory Heights 

Living on Auction Road 

With no street lights 

Tried to find love 

Out in Dixie homes 

Look at your TV 

And you find Rufus and Bones 

Matt D. Williams 

Giving you a D- 

The man won't hear no plea 

Man won't play no key 

Down in Memphis 

MMM Memphis Tennessee 

Memphis Tennessee 

Down in Memphis, Memphis 

Yeah Memphis Tennessee 

Down in Memphis, Memphis, Memphis yeah 

Memphis, Memphis, Memphis 

Memphis Tennessee 

Memphis Tennessee 

Yeah Memphis Tennessee