[Verse 1]

           
Put on my blue

       
 suede shoes
            
And I boarded 

        
the plane
             
Touched down i

             
n the land of 

         
the Delta Blue

s
             
In the middle 

             
of the pouring

    
 rain
         
W.C. Handy -- 

             
won't you look

           
 down over me
            
Yeah I got a f

             
irst class tic

   
ket
             
But I'm as blu

             
e as a boy can

 
 be


[Chorus]

           
Then I'm walki

                     
ng in Memphis
            
Walking with m

            
y feet ten fee

         
t off of Beale
           
Walking in Mem

                      
phis
            
But do I reall

             
y feel the way

        
 I feel?


[Verse 2]

            
Saw the ghost 

       
of Elvis
         
On Union Avenu

e
            
Followed him u

             
p to the gates

    
 of Graceland
             
Then I watched

             
 him walk righ

        
t through
             
Now security t

            
hey did not se

     
e him
             
They just hove

             
red 'round his

    
 tomb
              
But there's a 

             
pretty little 

            
thing, Waiting

         
 for the King
N.C.
Down in the Jungle Room


[Chorus]

           
Then I'm walki

                     
ng in Memphis
            
Walking with m

            
y feet ten fee

         
t off of Beale
           
Walking in Mem

                      
phis
            
But do I reall

             
y feel the way

        
 I feel?


[Instrumental]

 /  /  / 


[Bridge]

            
They've got ca

         
tfish on the t

      
able
            
They've got go

        
spel in the ai

       
r
              
And Reverend G

            
reen be glad t

  
o see you
         
When you haven

           
't got a praye

         
r
          
But boy you've

              
 got a prayer 

              
in Memphis


[Verse 3]

            
Now Muriel pla

       
ys piano
            
Every Friday a

          
t the Hollywoo

d
            
And they broug

              
ht me down to 

      
see her
            
And they asked

             
 me if I would
           
Do a little nu

    
mber
             
And I sang wit

            
h all my might
              
And she said, 

            
"Tell me are y

             
ou a Christian

 
 child?"
N.C.
And I said "Ma'am I am tonight"


[Chorus]

           
Then I'm walki

                     
ng in Memphis
            
Walking with m

            
y feet ten fee

         
t off of Beale
           
Walking in Mem

                      
phis
            
But do I reall

             
y feel the way

        
 I feel? 

           
Then I'm walki

                     
ng in Memphis
            
Walking with m

            
y feet ten fee

         
t off of Beale
           
Walking in Mem

                      
phis
            
But do I reall

             
y feel the way

        
 I feel? 


[Ending]

           
Put on my blue

       
 suede shoes
            
And I boarded 

        
the plane
             
Touched down i

             
n the land of 

         
the Delta Blue

s
             
In the middle 

             
of the pouring

    
 rain
             
Touched down i

             
n the land of 

         
the Delta Blue

s
             
In the middle 

             
of the pouring

    
 rain