Eddie Noack – Music Makin Mama From Memphis (Guitar)

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Listen to a story 'bout a gal I know

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She's my music-making mama, I'm a hillbilly beau

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She's sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings

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Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans

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She's my music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee

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She'll play a little rhythm, do the boogie upright

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A Tennessee polka, maybe blues in the night

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Everybody travels from near and far

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To hear when she picks it on that old guitar

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My music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee

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You can hear her in the evening when the sun sinks low

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Singing and a-picking on that old banjo

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You wanna jive when the words roll out of her mouth

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Everybody's calling her the Queen of the South

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She's my fiddle-playing mama from Memphis, Tennessee

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You gotta start dancing when she gets in the groove

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Picks the big bass, fiddle or yodels the blues

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Plays the downbeat, offbeat, any old beat

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A breakdown, a hoedown and does it up neat

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She's my bass-picking baby from Memphis, Tennessee

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You'll know when my baby is a-coming to town

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All the jive-jumping jitterbugs, they gather around

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They keep yelling to my queen, "Now, honey, let's go"

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My baby starts picking and a-picking down low

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My music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee

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She'll play a little rhythm, do the boogie upright

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A Tennessee polka, maybe blues in the night

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Everybody travels from near and far

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To hear when she picks on that old guitar

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My music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee