Memphis Rollin' Over

Whatcha gonna do when Memphis rolls over?

Move yer worries up the river while catchin' you a steamboat?

With poundings from The Duke that ripple to the quay 

Pushing back the wharf, breakin' the bondsman's chains.

A Sundown Town never held no freedoms 

When the thud of the heart still holds the beatin'. 

The grass is always greener when the option is fleein'. 

Anywhere is better than Savannah or Cleveland. 

Gonna row those oars to where Cairo's splittin'. 

Passin' paddlewheels where the heart's still livin'

Rollin' ne'er the shore dodgin' waters down the stygian. 

A roarin' beauty rolls from the alligator hissin'.

 

Move it over, Jackson..

Don't need your Tennessee business. 

I'm playing for the devil back in the Windy City.

Hello, St. Louis, did those muddy waters miss me?

I'm tailin' it from Basin, where the gaslight girls are pretty.

When you hear the strings a playin', in the land of Dixie

The stompin's entertainin comin' out of the Jukes on Beale Street

Whatcha gonna do when the Delta Blues get'cha?  

Gonna catch me a freight, haulin' in the Ole Mississippi.