Blog 3581 – 08.26.2925
Walking In Memphis
The largest city in the state of my birth, Tennessee, is Memphis. I was born and grew up in Chattanooga which is the fourth largest city in Tennessee behind Knoxville, number two, and Nashville, number three. As a boy the two most famous living Tennesseans in my estimation were singers Tennessee Ernie Ford and the King of Rock’n Roll, Elvis Presley.
Today’s song is a tribute Elvis’s hometown of Memphis. He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, but Memphis was his hometown and where after he had made a fortune with his early hit songs, like Hound Dog, Heartbreak Hotel, and Love Me Tender, he bought a mansion in Memphis for his mama and named it Graceland.
The song says, “I saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue. I followed him up to gates of Graceland and I watched him walk right through. Now security they did not see him. They just hovered ‘round his tomb. There’s a pretty little thing waiting for the King down in the jungle room.”
Walking In Memphis is a favorite song that I enjoy singing:
“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.”
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David James White
Walking In Memphis
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