Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
By Bob Dylan
Intro
E
Esus4
E
Esus4
E
Esus4
E
Verse 1
Oh, the
E
ragman draws
C#m
circles
E
Up and down the
C#m
block
I’d
E
ask him what the
C#m
matter was
But I
A
know that he don’t
B7
talk
And the
A
ladies treat me
E
kindly
And they f
C#m
urnish me with t
E
ape
But
C#m
deep inside my
E
heart
I
A
know I can’t es
E
cape
Chorus
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 2
Well,
E
Shakespeare, he’s in the
C#m
alley
With his
E
pointed shoes and his
C#m
bells
E
Speaking to some
C#m
French girl
Who
A
says she knows me
B
well
And
A
I would send a
E
message
To f
C#m
ind out if she’s
E
talked
But the
C#m
post office has been
E
stolen
And the
A
mailbox is
E
locked
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 3
E
Mona tried to t
C#m
ell me
To
E
stay away from the train
C#m
line
She
E
said that all the
C#m
railroad men
Just drink
A
up your blood like
B
wine
An’ I
A
said, “Oh, I didn’t
E
know that
But then ag
C#m
ain, there’s only one I’ve
E
met
An’
C#m
he just smoked my
E
eyelids
An’
A
punched my ciga
E
rette”
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 4
E
Grandpa died last
C#m
week
And now he’s
E
buried in the
C#m
rocks
But
E
everybody still
C#m
talks about
How
A
badly they were
B
shocked
But
A
me, I expected it to
E
happen
I
C#m
knew he’d lost con
E
trol
When he
C#m
built a fire on
E
Main Street
And
A
shot it full of
E
holes
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 5
Now the
E
senator
C#m
came down here
E
Showing ev’ryone his
C#m
gun
E
Handing out free
C#m
tickets
To the
A
wedding of his
B
son
An’
A
me, I nearly got
E
busted
An’
C#m
wouldn’t it be my
E
luck
To get
C#m
caught without a
E
ticket
And be dis
A
covered beneath a
E
truck
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 6
Now the
E
preacher looked so
C#m
baffled
When I
E
asked him why he
C#m
dressed
With
E
twenty pounds of
C#m
headlines
A
Stapled to his
B
chest
But he
A
cursed me when I
E
proved to him
Then I
C#m
whispered, “Not even you can
E
hide
You
C#m
see, you’re just like
E
me
I
A
hope you’re satis
E
fied”
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 7
Now the
E
rainman gave me
C#m
two cures
Then he
E
said, “Jump right
C#m
in”
The
E
one was Texas me
C#m
dicine
The
A
other was just railroad
B
gin
An’
A
like a fool I
E
mixed them
An’ it
C#m
strangled up my
E
mind
An’ now
C#m
people just get
E
uglier
An’ I
A
have no sense of
E
time
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 8
When
E
Ruthie says come
C#m
see her
In her
E
honky-tonk la
C#m
goon
Where I can
E
watch her waltz for
C#m
free
’Neath her
A
Panamanian
B
moon
An’ I
A
say, “Aw come
E
on now
You
C#m
know you know about my debu
E
tante”
An’ she says, “Your
C#m
debutante just knows what you
E
need
But
A
I know what you
E
want”
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Verse 9
Now the
E
bricks lay on
C#m
Grand Street
Where the
E
neon madmen
C#m
climb
They
E
all fall there so
C#m
perfectly
It
A
all seems so well
B
timed
An’
A
here I sit so
E
patiently
C#m
Waiting to find out what
E
price
You
C#m
have to pay to get
E
out of
Going
A
through all these things
E
twice
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?
Chorus *
G#m
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?
To be
E
stuck in
E/D#
side of
C#m
Mobile,
With the
A
Memphis
B7
blues a
E
gain?