Beale Street Blues
[Intro]
W.C. Handy
I've seen the lights of old gay Broadway
Market Street down by the Frisco Bay
I saw the Prado, I gambled on the Bourse in Paris, France
The seven wonders of this world I've seen
There's many of the different places I have been
But take my advice, folks, and see Beale Street once and that's in Memphis, Tennessee
[Verse 1]
You may have a brown, beautiful gal
Wears tailor-mades and do a little hand-me-down
She understands that I got it to spend
And now I'm going up north, I think I need your booze again
[Verse 2]
You may have a brown take-off toupée
Talk about your whiskеy and your bygone days
Be an honest man and big pockеts too
'Cause your business never closes, somebody gets you
Oh, they get you
[Chorus]
If Beale Street could talk, if Beale Street could talk
Married men would have to pack their bags up and walk
All except for a two that never drink booze
And the blind man on the corner who sings the Memphis blues
[Post-Chorus]
I'd rather be here than any place I know
Rather be here than any place I know
And it's gonna take a sergeant for to make me go (For to make me go)
[Outro]
Well, we'll see the river, baby, by and by
See the river as I sip and I'll tell the reason why
'Cause the river is wet and Memphis done gone dry, gone dry
W.C. Handy
I've seen the lights of old gay Broadway
Market Street down by the Frisco Bay
I saw the Prado, I gambled on the Bourse in Paris, France
The seven wonders of this world I've seen
There's many of the different places I have been
But take my advice, folks, and see Beale Street once and that's in Memphis, Tennessee
[Verse 1]
You may have a brown, beautiful gal
Wears tailor-mades and do a little hand-me-down
She understands that I got it to spend
And now I'm going up north, I think I need your booze again
[Verse 2]
You may have a brown take-off toupée
Talk about your whiskеy and your bygone days
Be an honest man and big pockеts too
'Cause your business never closes, somebody gets you
Oh, they get you
[Chorus]
If Beale Street could talk, if Beale Street could talk
Married men would have to pack their bags up and walk
All except for a two that never drink booze
And the blind man on the corner who sings the Memphis blues
[Post-Chorus]
I'd rather be here than any place I know
Rather be here than any place I know
And it's gonna take a sergeant for to make me go (For to make me go)
[Outro]
Well, we'll see the river, baby, by and by
See the river as I sip and I'll tell the reason why
'Cause the river is wet and Memphis done gone dry, gone dry