C
Listen to a story about a gal I know
F
She’s sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings
C
Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans
G7
C
She’s my music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
F
Everybody travels from near and far
C
To hear her when she swings it on her old guitar
G7
C
She’s my music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
F
You gotta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
C
Everybody’s calling her the Queen of the South
G7
C
She’s my fiddle playing mama from Memphis Tennessee
F
She plays a down beat an off beat any old beat
C
A breakdown a hoedown and does it up neat
G7
C
She’s my bass picking baby from Memphis Tennessee
F
They keep yelling to my Queenie now honey let’s go
C
My baby starts a picking and a picking down low
G7
C
My music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
F
Everybody travels from near and far
C
To hear her when she picks it on her old guitar
G7
C
She’s my music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
F
You gotta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
C
Everybody’s calling her the Queen of the South
G7
C
She’s my fiddle playing mama from Memphis Tennessee