And when wintertime is gone I might come back home

Now I get up every mornin' and I walk up to 3rd and Beale )

Now I get up every mornin' and I walk up to 3rd and Beale )

And I'm just studyin' and I'm wonderin' Lord just how to make a meal

Now the peoples in Memphis they all walkin' the streets up and down

Now the peoples in Memphis they all walkin' the streets up and down

And you know the time is hard peoples is starvin' all over the town

Now I once have been a lover baby back in my young days

Now I once have been a lover baby back in my young days

But my baby was so mean she done drove all my love away

Now I got a girl in Brownsville she lives down on Burlison Lane

Now I got a girl in Brownsville she lives down on Burlison Lane

But my gal was so mean I'm scared to call her name