The Memphis Beat

[Intro]
Pah-pah, pah-pah
Pah-pah (hey), pah-dee-ah (ho)
Pah-pah, pah-pah
Pah-pah, pah-dee-ah

[Verse 1]
Down to Mississippi where the water gets muddy
Forty-four schools where the kids don't study
They all hang around at the foot of Beale Street
That's where they hear that Memphis Beat

[Chorus]
(I'm goin' to Memphis where the beat is tough
I'm goin' to Memphis, I can't get enough
Yeah, it makes you trembly, and it makes you weak
It gets in your blood that Memphis Beat)

[Post-Chorus]
Pah-pah, pah-pah
Pah-pah, pah-dee-ah, oh
Pah-pah, pah-pah
Pah-pah, pah-dee-ah

[Verse 2]
Well, they hitch-hike here from California
Ride on a Honda from Arizona
Houston, Boston, Kansas City
New Orleans then doo-wah-diddy

[Chorus]
(I'm goin' to Memphis where the beat is tough
I'm goin' to Memphis, I can't get enough
Yeah, it makes you trembly, and it makes you weak
It gets in your blood that Memphis Beat)

[Post-Chorus]
Ow (Hey)
(Wow)
Watch it now
(Yeah
Yeah, Sam)
Yeah
Watch it now

[Verse 3]
People come ridin', walkin' and swimmin'
Got to get a chance at the good-lookin' women
Walk 'em on down to the foot of Beale Street
Dance all night to the Memphis Beat

[Chorus]
(I'm goin' to Memphis where the beat is tough
I'm goin' to Memphis, I can't get enough
Yeah, it makes you trembly, and it makes you weak
It gets in your blood that Memphis Beat)

[Outro]
Yeah, got to make it down here
(I'm goin' to Memphis, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah)
Even if I have to swim
(I'm goin' to Memphis yah, yah, yah, yah
I'm goin' to Memphis, now)
Got to see what's goin' on
(Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis)
See what they're puttin' down