Down In Memphis - Booker T. Jones/Booker T

Doing 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 Memphis

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