Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Live at Tarrant County Convention Center Arena, Ft. Worth, TX - May 1976

And 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

Lord, 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

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

But 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

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

Ooh mama, can this really be the end

To be stuck inside of mobile

With the Memphis blues again

Grandpa died last week

Now he's buried in the rocks

Everyone still talks about

How badly they were shocked

But me, I expected it to happen

When I knew he'd lost control

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

When Ruthie says come see her

In her honky-tonk lagoon

Where I could watch her waltz for free

'Neath her Panamanian moon

I said, "Oh, come on now

You must know about my debutante"

She said, "Your debutante 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 they fall 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, can this really be the end

To be stuck inside of mobile

With the Memphis blues again