Lyrics - All The Way From Memphis by Brian May

Good evening
Memphis
How are we doing
Let's do it
Forgot my six-string razor and
I hit the sky
Halfway to
Memphis before
I realised
Hey,
I rang the information, my axe was cold
They said "she rides the train down to
Oreole"
Well it's a mighty long way down the dusty trail
And the sun burns hot on the cold steel rail
And
I look like a bum and
I crawl like a snail
All the way from
Memphis
I got to
Oreole, you know, it took a month
And there was my guitar, electric junk
Some dude said "rock'n'rollers, you're all the same
Man that's your instrument"
I felt so ashamed
Now it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
Through the
Bradford
Cities and the
Oreoles
And you look like a star but you're still on the dole
All the way from
Memphis"
Of course we weren't always superstars
There was a time when we were just ordinary commoners just like you"
Thank you
Mr
Hoople
Well it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
From the
Liverpool
Docks to the
Hollywood
Bowl
And you climb up the mountains and you fall down the holes
All the way from
Memphis
Well it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
And your name gets hot and your heart grows cold
And you've got to stay a young man, you can never get old
All the way from
Memphis
Well it's a mighty long way down rock'n'roll
From the
Bradford
Cities and the
Oreole
And you look like a star but you're still on parole
All the way from
Memphis
All the way from
Memphis
All the way from
Memphis (all the way from memphis)
All the way from
Memphis
Thank you and goodnight
Taken
From
The
Album "
ANOTHER
WORLD" (1998)

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