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I've been struggling up here just trying to make a living
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Everybody wants to take and nobody likes giving
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I wish I was back in Memphis back home home with my mama
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The only clothes I got left that ain't rags is my pajamas
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Yeah, no brotherly love and no help and no danger
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Just a great big town full of cold-hearted strangers
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I went hungry in New York, Chicago was no better
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But today, my dear mother wrote and told me in her letter
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Said, come home back to Memphis and live here with your mama
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You can walk down Beale Street, honey, wearing your pajamas
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You know folks down here, they let do just like you wanna
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And I born you and raised you right here on the corner
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[Verse]
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I'm gonna get up in the morning goin' to the station
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I've got just enough money to reach my destination
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I'm going back to Memphis, back home to my mama
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I'm gonna ride that bus barefoot in my pajamas
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Yeah, goin' back to Memphis, no moaning and groaning
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I know everything will be all right in the morning
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