Stay away from the railroad line
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
With the Memphis blues again?
And he said, "Jump right in"
When he built a fire on Main Street
The first was Texas medicine
Oh, oh Mama, can this really be the end
Handing out free tickets
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
Waiting to find out what price
He just smoked my eyelids
I'd asked him, "What's the matter?"
Then he cursed me when I proved it to him
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
But then again, there's only one I've met
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
With the Memphis blues again?
Now the bricks, they lay on Grand Street
With the Memphis blues again?
To get caught without a ticket
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
Be discovered beneath a truck
In her honky-tonk lagoon
To be stuck inside a Mobile
Then I said, " You see, not even you can hide
She says all the railroad men
I knew he'd lost control
Who says she knows me well?
Speaking with some French girl
And they had furnish me with tape
You have to pay to get out of
When I asked him why he had dressed
Stapled to his chest
All seems so well timed
And they buried him in the rocks
Everyone still talks about
Now the rainman gave me two cures
With the Memphis blues again?
To be stuck inside a Mobile
With the Memphis blues again?
The second was just railroad gin
Now the senator, he came down here
To be stuck inside a Mobile
Now Mona, she tried to warn me
An' he punched my cigarette"
With the Memphis blues again?
How badly they are shocked
To be stuck inside a Mobile
Where the neon madmen climb
But I know he don't talk
Going through all of these things twice
Showing everyone his gun
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
But the post office has been stolen
But deep inside my heart I know
You see, you're just like me
She says, "You take your time, knows what you need
An' here I sit so patiently
Now the preacher looked so baffled
When Ruthie says come see her
An' like a fool I mixed them
But I know what you want"
But me, I expected it to happen
And the ladies treat me kindly
An' I have got no sense of time
Just drink up your blood like wine
'Neath her Panamanian moon
An' wouldn't it be my luck
With the Memphis blues again?
With his pointed shoes and bells
With twenty pounds of headlines
To be stuck inside a Mobile
An' me, I nearly got busted
Shakespeare, he's in the alley
To be stuck inside a Mobile
Where I can watch her waltz for free
And I hope you're satisfied"
They all fall there so perfectly
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside a Mobile
And me, I would send a message
An' I said, "Oh, I didn't know that
And he shot it full of holes
An' I said, "Aw, come on now
To be stuck inside a Mobile
To be stuck inside a Mobile
To find out if she's talked
With the Memphis blues again?
To be stuck inside a Mobile
Mailbox is locked
My grandpa died last week
With the Memphis blues again?
Now people just get uglier
I know I can't escape
And it strangled up my mind
To the wedding of his son
You know, you know about my debutante"
