THE MEMPHIS BLUES
GEORGE A. NORTON'S Song
Founded on W.C. Handy's World Wide "Blue" Note Melody
Original Copyright MCMXIII by Theron C. Bennett, N.Y. City

Verse 1.
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 adancin' with a Tennesee dear,
They had a fellow there named Handy with a band you should hear
and while the whi' folks gently swayed All dem darkies played, real Harmony,
I never will forget the tune that Handy called the Memphis Blues.
Oh them Blues

Chorus
They got a fiddler there that always slickens his hair,
an' folks he sure do pull some bow,
And when the big Bassoon seconds to the Trombones croon,
croon It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day, on Revival Day,
That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain
is like a Darkies sorrow song Here comes the very part
that wraps a spell around my heart, heart,
It sets me wild to hear that lovin' tune again
The Memphis Blues They got a Blues.

Verse 2.
Oh, that melody, sure appealed to me,
Just like a mountain stream rippling on it seemed
Then it slowly died, with a gentle sigh soft as the breeze that whines,
High in the summer pines 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 nothin' like the Handy Band that play'd the Memphis Blues so grand.
Oh them Blues.

Repeat Chorus