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BOB DYLAN lyrics : "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again"


Oh, the ragman draws circles
Up and down the block

I'd ask him what the matter was
But I know that he don't talk
And the ladies treat me kindly

And furnish me with tape
But deep inside my heart
I know I can't escape

Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.


Well Shakespeare he's in the alley
With his pointed shoes and his bells

Speaking to some French girl
Who says she knows me well
And I would send a message

To find out if she's talked
But the post office has been stolen
And the mailbox is locked

Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.


Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line

She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
And I said "Oh I didn't know that

But then again there's only one I've met
And he just smoked my eyelids
And punched my cigarette"

Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Grandpa died last week
And now he's buried in the rocks
But everybody still talks about

How badly they were shocked
But me, I expected it to happen
I knew he'd lost control

When he built a fire on Main Street
And shot it full of holes
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end

To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.


Now the senator came down here
Showing ev'ryone his gun
Handing out free tickets

To the wedding of his son
And me, I nearly get bursted
And wouldn't it be my luck

To get caught without a ticket
And be discovered beneath a truck
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end

To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.


Now the preacher looked so baffled
When I asked him why he dressed
With twenty pounds of headlines

Stapled to his chest
But he cursed me when I proved it to him
Then I whispered, "Not even you can hide

You see, you're just like me
I hope you're satisfied"
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end

To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Now the rainman gave me two cures

Then he said, "Jump right in"
The one was Texas medicine
The other was just railroad gin

And like a fool I mixed them
And it strangled up my mind
And now, people just get uglier
And I have no sense of time
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end

To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

When Ruthie says come see her
In her honky-tonk lagoon

Where I can watch her waltz for free
'Neath her Panamanian moon
And I say, "Aw come on now
You know you know about my debutante"
And she says, "Your debutante just knows what you need

But I know what you want"
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.


Now the bricks lay on Grand Street
Where the neon madmen climb
They all fall there so perfectly
It all seems so well timed
And here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price

You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice
Oh, Mama, is this really the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

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