Misc Musicals – Memphis - Music Of My Soul (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]

C
 When I was a young boy

E7                   F
  My daddy sat me down

N.C. He said, "Son, don't you never go

       F    C/E  Dm7 C      G7
To the dark side of  town"

[Verse 2]

C
 I'm talkin' downtown Memphis

E7
  See that's where the black folk play

F
 And I said, "Yes, sir, daddy"

           F     C/E  Dm7 C
And then I snuck down any - way

[Verse 3]

C                               E7
 See, never was taught to read none

                           F
And, no, never taught to write

                     F
The only thing my daddy taught

         F     C/E      Dm7    C
Was that white should stay with white

[Pre-chorus]

G7                               Gb7
  But I heard it through the alleys

    F7
And it floated on the breeze

C   G/B                   Am  C/G
 It burst out through the doorways

      F                 G
And it knocked me to my knees

[Chorus]

  C                     F  C  Csus4
Oh it broke down all my senses

C                F  C    Csus4
 It made me feel so whole

G                 C     G
 See I was lost until I found

   F     C/E  Dm7 C
The music of  my  soul

    F     C/E  Dm7 C
The music of   my   soul

[Verse 4]

C
 Then one day my Daddy died

E7
  And we laid him in his grave

F
 And my mamma, she cried and cried and cried

    F           C/E  Dm7 C
And prayed that he'd be  saved

[Verse 5]

C
 But all I felt was pity

E7                     F
  For he never understood

                 F
How could people be so bad

          F  C/E  Dm7 C
That made me feel so  good?

[Pre-Chorus]

G7                                     Gb7
  It whipped right through my body and it

F
 Grabbed me by my heart

C   G/B          Am       C/G
 It shot up from my fingertips

      F               G
And it tore me right a-part

[Chorus]

C                     F6 C  Csus4
 It broke down all my senses

C                F  C    Csus4
 It made me feel so whole

G                           C     G
And I will love it till the day I die

    F     F/E Dm7 C
The music of  my  soul, yeah!

[Chorus]

C                     F  C  Csus4
 It broke down all my senses

C                F  C    Csus4
 It made me feel so whole

C                     F  C   Csus4
 See I was lost until I found

C             F     C
 I was deaf until I heard

[Outro]

G                           C     G
 I'll make this world come around to

    F     C/E Dm7 C
The music of  my  soul

    F     C/E Dm7 G  C
The music of  my     soul