Tab Realm

Memphis Beat by Jerry Lee Lewis


                           Memphis Beat


Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G
Capo:no capo
 
[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
G




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