Jimmy Buffett - Meet Me In Memphis lyrics

By: Jimmy Buffet, Michael Utley

1986

He's holed up down on Ramrod Key in the Tavenier Hotel

Livin' out his loneliness like an oyster in a shell

By days he pulls the trap line

By night he lives alone

Don't really feel like company it's just him and his fridge and his phone

Chorus:

Meet me in Memphis (meet me in Memphis)

That's where I'll be (that's where I'll be)

I'm by the river (oooh oooh) please come back to me

Meet me in Memphis (meet me in Memphis)

My wild days are through

And nothin' replaces (oooh oooh) me next to you

He's been there since she ran away

She said she needs some space

Occasionally she still calls collect

From some god forsaken place

Then one day a letter came

Postmarked Tennessee

And the envelope scent

And the postage spent

Well it lit up her old memory

Chorus:

Meet me in Memphis (meet me in Memphis)

That's what she said (that's what she said)

Too much for a letter (oooh oooh) please come here instead

Meet me in Memphis (meet me in Memphis)

My wild days are through

Still nothing replaces (oooh oooh) me next to you

(horn instrumental)

(Meet me in Memphis)

I know she could break my heart again

But I'm gonna play and I'm gonna win

Where Otis would play

Da da da dock of the bay

Meet me in Memphis (meet me in Memphis)

That's where I'll be (that's where I'll be)

I'm by the river (oooh oooh) you're by the sea

Oh please, meet me in Memphis (meet me in Memphis)

My wild days are through

Still nothing replaces (oooh oooh) me next to you