Music Makin Mama From Memphis
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
"Music Makin' Mama from Memphis" - Eddie Noack
B-side on the single "I'd Still Want You / Music Makin' Mama From Memphis" (1952)
Track 62 of 65 on the album "Presenting Eddie Noack"
Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy2LWs6xC4s
[Intro]
B7 E
[Verse 1]
E
Listen to a story 'bout a gal I know
E E7
She's my music-making mama, I'm a hillbilly beau
A
She's sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings
E
Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans
B7 E
She's my music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee
[Verse 2]
E
She'll play a little rhythm, do the boogie upright
E E7
A Tennessee polka, maybe blues in the night
A
Everybody travels from near and far
E
To hear when she picks it on that old guitar
B7 E
My music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee
[Guitar Solo]
E
E E7
A
E
B7 E
[Verse 3]
E
You can hear her in the evening when the sun sinks low
E E7
Singing and a-picking on that old banjo
A
You wanna jive when the words roll out of her mouth
E
Everybody's calling her the Queen of the South
B7 E
She's my fiddle-playing mama from Memphis, Tennessee
[Fiddle Solo]
E
E E7
A
E
B7 E
[Verse 4]
E
You gotta start dancing when she gets in the groove
E E7
Picks the big bass, fiddle or yodels the blues
A
Plays the downbeat, offbeat, any old beat
E
A breakdown, a hoedown and does it up neat
B7 E
She's my bass-picking baby from Memphis, Tennessee
[Bass Solo]
E N.C.
E N.C.
A N.C.
E N.C.
B7 N.C. E
[Verse 5]
E
You'll know when my baby is a-coming to town
E E7
All the jive-jumping jitterbugs, they gather around
A
They keep yelling to my queen, "Now, honey, let's go"
E
My baby starts picking and a-picking down low
B7 E
My music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee
[Guitar Solo]
E
E E7
A
E
B7 E
[Verse 6]
E
She'll play a little rhythm, do the boogie upright
E E7
A Tennessee polka, maybe blues in the night
A
Everybody travels from near and far
E
To hear when she picks on that old guitar
B7 E
My music-making mama from Memphis, Tennessee
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