Folks I've just been down, down to Memphis town   That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while   Hospitality, they were good to me   I couldn't spend a dime and had the grandest time      I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear   They had a fellow named Handy with a band you should hear   And while the folks gently swayed   All them boys began to play in real harmony   I never will forget that tune they call   Handy's Memphis Blues, oh yes, those blues      They've got a trumpet man leading the band   And folks, he sure blow some horn   And when the clarinet seconds to the trombones croon   It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day      That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain   Is like a morning sorrow song   Here comes the very part that wraps a spell around my heart   It sets me wild to hear that loving tune again, those Memphis Blues