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Name: ( Walking In Memphis
Artist: ) Marc Cohn
Year: ( 1991
Album: ) Marc Cohn
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Original Tab by: ) Joe D (Gocaps99)
Adittions/Corrections by: ( Alex Cowley (AlexCowley)
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=== HOWDY =============================================================================
Hey, this is my first tab (even though the majority of it isn't mine, I've just
rearranged it into a more readable format), so sorry if some things are a little
weird, please don't be too harsh!
Walking in Memphis is a beautiful song, and even though it's arranged on piano
it works really well with a solo acoustic or as part of a band.
This is the way I play the song. I learned it off Joe D (Gocaps)'s tab, and
modified it a little in relation to some little changes chord-wise, lyrics-wise
and just a bit of tidying up to make the tab a little more readable.
I hope you can make some good use of this tab, please let me know if you use it
and maybe rate it as well! Thankyou folks, have fun and keep jammin'!
=== VERSE ONE =========================================================================
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 -- won't you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a boy can be
=== CHORUS (Same throughout the song) =================================================
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?
=== VERSE TWO =========================================================================
Saw the ghost of Elvis
On Union Avenue
Followed him up to the gates of Graceland
Then I watched him walk right through
Now security they did not see him
They just hovered 'round his tomb
But there's a pretty little thing, Waiting for the King
NC.
Down in the Jungle Room
=== CHORUS (Same throughout the song) =================================================
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?
=== Bridge ============================================================================
[INSTRUMENTAL INTRO] - Csus4 / C / Csus4 / C
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
NC.
But boy you've got a prayer in Memphis
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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?"
N.C.
And I said "Ma'am I am tonight"
=== CHORUS (Same throughout the song) =================================================
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?
=== Final Verse =======================================================================
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
Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues
In the middle of the pouring rain
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