The Band – Back To Memphis (Guitar)

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[INTRO RIFF]
  A
e|--------------------|---------------------|
B|--------------------|---------------------|
G|-----2--------------|-----2---------------|
D|-----2--------------|-----2---------------|
A|-3h4---0-0-0-0-0-0-0|-3h4---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
E|--------------------|---------------------|

[INTRO CHORDS] A7 D7 A7 E7 A7 [VERSE 1]

A7
I've been struggling up here, just, trying to make a living

Everybody wants to take, nobody likesgiving

    D7
I wish I was in Memphis back home with my Mama

         A7
The only clothes I got left that ain't rags is my pajamas

   E7
No brotherly love, no help, no danger

        A7
Just a great big town full of cold hearted strangers

[VERSE 2]

   A7
I went hungry in New York and Chicago was no better

But today, my dear mother wrote and told me in her letter

   D7
Said, come on back to Memphis and live here with your Mama

   A7
You can walk down Beale Street honey, wearing your pajamas

             E7
You know  folks down here, we let do just what you want to

        A7
And I born you and raised you right here on the corner

[BREAK} (to verse pattern 2x) A7 D7 A7 E7 A7 A7 D7 A7 E7 A7 [VERSE 3]

A7
I'm going get up in the morning going to the bus station

I've got just enough money to reach my destination

     D7
I'm going back to Memphis, back home with my Mama

             A7
I'm going to ride that bus barefoot in my  pajamas

E7
Yeah I'm going back to Memphis, no moaning and groaning

        A7
I know everything will be all right in the morning

[OUTRO] A7 D7 A7 E7 A7