It's midnight in Memphis
  and all the boys are out tonight.
  Oh, midnight in Memphis,
  but my true love is not in sight.
  The neon's glowing,
  but I just don't see the light.
    I'm following my footsteps
  trying to find myself a friend.
  Oh, baby! Following my footsteps
  trying to see where they might end.
  I'm tryin' to break these blues,
  but I can't even get them to bend.
    Oh, midnight in Memphis.
  Well, ya take me away.
  Midnight in Memphis.
  It's a long, long time
  before the day.
    Runnin' down on Beale Street.
  Can you hear that engine roar?
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
  Runnin' down on Beale Street.
  There's a girl in every door.
  Yeah, it don't matter what you got,
  they're asking me for more.
  Play it for me one time, boys.
    I heard the river risin',
  risin' up over my head.
  Yeah, heard the river risin',
  and this is what it said:
  "I don't need no live ones;
  I just take care of the dead."
    Oh, midnight in Memphis.
  Take me, take me away.
  Midnight in Memphis.
  It's a long, long time
  before the day.
    Whoa, oh, oh, oh, midnight in Memphis.
  Midnight in Memphis.
  Midnight in Memphis.
  It's a long, long time
  before the day,
  before the day.