Walking In Memphis

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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1.
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Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the
  7
plane
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Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues
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In the middle of the pouring rain
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W       C  handy, won`t you look down over me?
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Yeah, I`ve got a first class ticket but I`m as
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blue as a boy can be
CHORUS
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Then I`m Walking In Memphis 
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Was walking with my feet ten feet off of 
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Beale
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Walking In Memphis
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But do  I really feel the way I feel?
2.
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Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue
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Followed him up to the gates of Graceland
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Then I watched him walk right through
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Now security, they did not see him
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They just hovered `round his tomb
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But there`s a pretty little thing 
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Waiting for the King down in the Jungle Room
REPEAT CHORUS
3.
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They`ve got catfish on the table

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They`ve got gospel in the air
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And Reverend  Green be glad to see you when
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you haven`t got a prayer~~~~~~~~~
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But boy you`ve got a prayer in Memphis
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Now Muriel plays piano ev`ry Friday at the
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Hollywood
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And they brought me down to see her and
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 Asked me if  I would,
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Well do a little number and I sang with all
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my might.
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She said  “Tell me are you a Christian child?”
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And I said “Ma`am I am~~~~~~ to-night”
REPEAT CHORUS
(Then repeat verse 1.)

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