Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

One of the first blues being published. W.C. Handy first wrote it 1909 as a campaign song for E.H. Crump in his run for mayor of Memphis and a piano version was published 1910. Lasse's arrangement stems from listening to The Original Memphis Five recording and to some degree from Doc Watson's recording of Memphis Blues in the 1970s. It starts in the key of A and the last section is in the key of C.