The Band - Back to memphis

^AI been strugglin' up here just tryin' to make a livin'. Everybody wants to take and nobody likes givin'. I wish ^DI's back in Memphis, back home with my Momma. The only ^Aclothes I got left are these rags and my pjamas. Yeah no ^E7brotherly love and no help with no danger. This's a ^Agreat big town full of cold hearted strangers.

^AI went hungry into Georgia, Chicago was no better. Well today my dear mother wrote and told me in Atlanta. Said come ^Don back to Memphis and they'll help you raise your Momma. You can ^Awalk down Beale Street, honey wearing your pjamas. You know ^E7folks down here they let you do just like you wanna. And I ^Aborn you and raised you, right here on the corner.

^AI'm gonna get up in the mornin', goin' to the bus station. I got just enough money you know to reach my destination. I'm goin' ^Dback to Memphis, back home to my Momma. I'm gonna ^Aride that bus barefoot in my pjamas. Yeah I'm ^E7goin' back to Memphis, no moanin' and a groanin'. I know ^Aeverything'll be alright in the mornin'.