[ti:The Memphis Blues] [ar:Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars] [al:Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Memphis Blues (Or Mister Crump) - Louis Armstrong and His All Stars [00:11.35]Folks I've just been down [00:13.95]Down to Memphis town [00:16.41]That's where the people smile [00:18.43]Smile on you all the while [00:21.32]Hospitality they were good to me [00:26.05]I couldn't spend a dime and had the grandest time [00:30.51]I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear [00:35.14]They had a fellow named Handy [00:37.45]With a band you should hear [00:39.83]And while the folks gently swayed [00:42.89]All them boys began to play in real harmony [00:48.89]I never will forget that tune they call [00:53.12]Handy's Memphis Blues [00:55.71]Oh yes [00:56.69]Those blues [00:58.36]They've got a trumpet man leading the band [01:02.70]And folks he sure blow some horn [01:08.28]And when the clarinet seconds [01:12.06]To the trombones croon [01:18.04]It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day [01:27.86]That melancholy strain that ever haunting refrain [01:33.10]Is like a morning sorrow song [01:37.28]Here comes the very part [01:40.29]That wraps a spell around my heart [01:47.19]It sets me wild to hear that loving tune again [01:53.45]Those Memphis Blues