Hernando de Soto Bridge across the Mississipi River between Memphis and New Memphis, Tennessee (United States)

Put on my blue suede shoes
And I boarded the plane
Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues
In the middle of the pouring rain
W.C. Handy, won't you look down over me
Yeah, I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a boy can be
Then I'm walking in Memphis
Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale
Walking in Memphis
But do I really feel the way I feel?

Walking in Memphis 

Lyrics by Mar Cohn

Hernando de Soto Bridge across the Mississippi River between Memphis (Tennessee) and New Memphis (Arkansas) in United States

Maybe it was Memphis

Maybe it was Southern summer nights

Maybe it was you maybe it was me

But it sure felt right

Read about you in a Faulkner novel

Met you once in a Williams play

Heard about you in a country love song

Summer night beauty took my breath away

What was I supposed to do

Standing there lookin' at you

A lonely boy far from home

Excerpt from Maybe it Was Memphis

Song by Pam Tills