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W.C.HANDY - MEMPHIS BLUES
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145 West 45% Street THE MEMPHIS BLUES.
GEORGE A. NORTON’.
Song
Founded on W. C, Handy’s World Wide “Blue” Note Melody,
Moderato.
"Tit ready.
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Slowly,
Folks Ive just! beendown, downto -phis town, That's where the peo - ple smile,
Oh, that mel- 0 - dy, sure ap - pealedto me, Just like a moun-tain stream
smile on you all__ the while fos- pi - fat ity, they were ms
rip- pl- ing on__ it seemed Then it slow - lydied, vith a gen - tle sigh I could -.n't spend a dime, And had the grand ~
soft as the breeze that whines, © High in the sum
T went ‘out a-danc- in’ with a dear, They had
Hear me peo- ple, hear _me peo - ple pray, Tim going
fel- tow thérenamed Han- dy with bdnd you should ‘hear’ and while the
take a mil lion les- son's “til Team how to play be- cause I
ies played,
for - get
will for- et! the tine that
like the Han - dy Band that
The Memphis Blues. 4 Hen dy called thn Kempe on ith
ging Ge Sem” pis Bice "so oh tem
fid_- ler there that al-ways slick-ens his an’ folks he
pull some And when the big Day, on Re-viv=- al
ly strain that e-ver
haunt-ing re - fraid is like a Dark - its
tat wraps a spell a-round my
