Going Back to Memphis

I know I'm the blues
No one can doubt me
You got the whole wide world
Talking about me
I don't know who else I can be
You can't take the blues from me
My home ain't here
It's in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is where the blues were born
And my old soul
Well, well, the blues were born in Memphis
And me too
We had to sing the blues all day and all night
As we had nothing else to do
But things are getting a lot better
Don't have to play all the time
Oh, things are getting much better
You don't have to play the blues all the time
But that little girl, she left me
And she drove me out of my mind
So be ready when I call
You know I got a round to make
I don't mean to be in no hurry
But I can't make the other girls late
Because I was short of the manpower
I got a whole lot of work on my hands
Cooperate with me, miss lady
You must have taken care of your lover man
I'm going back home
Where I can get my hambone boiled
Well, I'm going back home to Memphis
Where I can get my hambone boiled
You ladies around here
Gonna let my hambone spoil