Back To Memphis Chords by Chuck Berry

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I've been struggling up here, child, trying to make a living. _ _
Everybody wants a kick, nobody likes a kibble. _ _
[Bb] I wish I was in Memphis back home there with my mama. _ _
[F] The only clothes I got left there in rags is my pajamas.
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[Cm] Motherly love, no help and no danger. _ _
[F] Just a great big mouth full of cold, hot ginger. _ _
I was hungry in New York and Chicago and no matter. _ _
But today my dear mother wrote and told me in a letter. _ _
[Bb] Come on back to Memphis and live here with your mama. _ _
[F] You can wash down the country, honey, wearing your pajamas.
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[C] You know home folks, yeah, we let you do just what you wanted.
_ And [F] I found you and raised you, right there on the corner. _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ I'm _ _ gonna leave here in the morning and walk down to the station. _ _ _
Just enough money to pay my taxes, son. _ _ _
[Bb] _ Back home with my mama, _ _ _
[F] _ I put it in the junk. _ _ _
[C] Back home, man, no more need to run and strolling.
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_ [Fm] All [F] right, it's on. _ _ _
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