(Intro - just the chords - apenas os acordes)
G Am7 Bm7 C G C D G Csus2 G
G Am7 Bm7 C G C D
G Am7 Bm7
(VERSE)
C G (A/G#)
There's a town that I call home
Em C G
Where all the streets are paved with soul
C
Down on Beale there's a honky-tonk bar
D
So hear the wail of a blues guitar
Em F
Have a beer and drop a dime in the blind man's jar
G Am7 Bm7 C
The blues sing softly in the air like a Sunday morning prayer
G/B Am7 D G Csus2 G
Just one more drink and you'll see God everywhere
G Am7 Bm7 C
Like a sad old melody that cheers you up, it sets you free
G/B Am7 D G Am7 Bm7 C D
That's how Memphis lives in me
((CHORUS))
Em
There comes a time when muddy waters run rough
D/F#
There comes a point when a man has had enough
G C C/B
Like a friend that always stands by me
Am
Memphis knows me
G/B
Never showed me
C D
How did life just had to be
((VERSE))
G Am7 Bm7 C
I couldn't even try to run away, say goodbye
G/B Am7 D G Csus2 G
Here I was born and here is where I'll die
G Am7
I'm just a man from Tennessee
Bm7 C
I can't be what I can't be
G/B Am7 D G Csus2 G
All I know is Memphis lives in me
G Am7
I said I'm just a man from Tennessee
Bm7 C
Can't be what I can't be
G/B Am7 D
All I know is Memphis lives
G/B Am7 D
All I know is Memphis gives
G/B Am7 D G
All I know is Memphis lives in me
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Transcripted by Felipe Fontoura Melachawças