Chuck Berry - Back To Memphis Lyrics






I've been struggling up here, child, trying to make a living
Everybody wants to take, nobody like giving
I wish I was in Memphis back home there with my Mama
The only clothes I got left that ain't rags is my pajamas
No brotherly love, no help, no danger
Just a great big town full of cold hearted strangers

I went hungry in New York and Chicago was no better
But today, my dear mother wrote and told me in her letter
Son, come back to Memphis and live here with your Mama
You can walk down Beale Street, honey, wearing your pajamas
You know home folks here, we let do just what you want to
And I born you and raised you right here on the corner

I'm going to leave here in the morning and walk down to the station
I've got just enough money to pay my transportation
I'm going back to Memphis, back home with my Mama
If I have to ride that bus barefooted in pajamas
Back home in Memphis, no moaning and groaning
I know everything will be all right in the morning





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  1. B.... I....

    I've been struggling up here, child, trying to make a living
    Everybody wants to take, nobody like giving
    I wish I was in Memphis back home there with my Mama
    The only clothes I got left that ain't rags is my pajamas
    No brotherly love, no help, no danger
    Just a great big town full of cold hearted strangers

    I went hungry in New York and Chicago was no better
    But today, my dear mother wrote and told me in her letter
    Son, come back to Memphis and live here with your Mama
    You can walk down Beale Street, honey, wearing your pajamas
    You know home folks here, we let do just what you want to
    And I born you and raised you right here on the corner

    I'm going to leave here in the morning and walk down to the station
    I've got just enough money to pay my transportation
    I'm going back to Memphis, back home with my Mama
    If I have to ride that bus barefooted in pajamas
    Back home in Memphis, no moaning and groaning
    I know everything will be all right in the morning

  2. J.... J....

    NIce song, one of the thousand of Chuck, CHUCK IS KING OF ROCK AND ROLL

  3. 9.... ....

    Masterpiece ! ! !

  4. d.... ....

    love this song and the video is perfect

  5. J.... J....

    Great Video! see ya on World Famous Beale St
    Jason James