Jerry Lee Lewis – Memphis Beat (Guitar)

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As recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis (From the 1966 Album MEMPHIS BEAT) [Intro] D7 G [Verse 1]

G
Down the Mississippi where the water gets muddy

G
Forty-four school where the kids don't study

          C
Well they all hang around at the root of Beale Street

   G
Oh that's where they hear that Memhpis Beat

             C                               G
I'm goin' to Memphis where the beat is tough Memphis I can't get enough

   C                                       D N.C.                           D7
It makes you tremble and it makes you weak gets in your blood that Memphis Beat

[Verse 2]

             G
Whoo they're hitchhikin' here from California ride on a Honda from Arizona

C                          G
Houston Boston Kansas City New Orleans and a doo wa diddy

                C                               G
Oh I'm goin' to Memphis where the beat is tough Memphis I can't get enough

   C                                       D N.C.                           D7
It makes you tremble and it makes you weak gets in your blood that Memphis Beat

[Piano Solo] G7 [Guitar Solo] C7 G7 D7 C7 G7 [Verse 3]

G
Well people come a ridin' a walkin' a swimmin'

G
Got a little chance at them good lookin' women

              C
Oh they march on down to the foot of Beale Street

        G
Ah then dance all night to that Memphis Beat

                C                               G
Oh I'm goin' to Memphis where the beat is tough Memphis I can't get enough

   C                                       D N.C.                           D7
It makes you tremble and it makes you weak gets in your blood that Memphis Beat

[Outro]

           G
Oh come on now let's go to Memphis

G
Where the beat is tough I can't get enough

G
I gotta get back there I gotta get back there