Midnight In Memphis chords by Bette Midler

Tuning: Standard tuning

Difficulty: novice

Midnight In Memphis - Bette Midler (From 'The Rose')
Written By: Tony Johnson.
Chorded By: Zack Oxford.

4/4 TIME (UON) @ 128 BPM (3 Min. 26 Sec.) in 'D'.

Chords Used: (CAPO 1st Fret to match Orig. in 'D#') -
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       GUITAR       KEYS
    E A D G B e  Bass| Chord
    ------------------  -------------
D  - x x 0 2 3 2   D  A-D-F#
A  - x 0 2 2 2 0   A  A-C#-E
Bm  - x 2 4 4 3 2   B  B-D-F#
G  - 3 2 0 0 0 3   G  B-D-G  -OR-
   - 3 2 0 0 3 3
Em  - 0 2 2 0 0 0   E  B-E-G
F#m - 2 4 4 2 2 2   F#  A-C#-F#

'VERSE'/'SOLO' Repeating Chord Pattern: [12 M]
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|D  |G  |D  |D  |G  |G  |D  |D  |A  |G  |D  |D  |


'CHORUS' Repeating Chord Pattern: [10 M]
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|G  |D  |A  |D  Em F#m|G  |D  |A  |G  |D  |D  |


** NOTE: In 1st and 3rd 'VERSE' you can sing 'girls' or 'boys' (gender optional).


INTRO: [17.375 M]
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   D A|Bm   |A   |D   |D   |D   |D   |D   |D   |


|D   |D   |D   |D   |D   |D   |D   |D   |D     |
                                    It's

VERSE #1: [12 M]
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|D              |G                |D      |
 mid- night in Mem- phis,  and all the girls/boys are out to-night

|D      |G              |G             |
   Whoa,  mid- night in Mem- phis,  and my true love is not in

|D      |D     |A           |G             |
 sight        The ne-on’s glow- in’,   but I just don’t see the

|D      |D     |
 light        I'm

VERSE #2: [12 M]
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|D              |G             |D      |
 fol-low-in’ my foot- steps  try'n’ to find my-self a friend

|D        |G              |
  Oh, ba- by, fol-low-in’ my foot- steps

|G               |D     |D     |
  just to see where they might end        I'm

|A               |G             |
 try'n’ to break these blues,  but I can’t get them to

|D     |D    |
 bend

CHORUS #1: [10 M]
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|G           |D        |A           |
 Whoa,  mid-night  in Mem- phis,    well, you take me a-

|D   Em F#m|G             |D        |
-way  Oh,    mid- night in Mem- phis,  It’s a long,

|A       |G        |D     |D    |
  long time    be-fore the day

VERSE #3: [12 M]
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|D               |G             |D      |
 Burn-in’ down on Beale Street  Can you hear the en-gine roar?

|D        |G                |
   Yeah, yeah,  burn-in’ down on Beale Street,

|G             |D     |D      |
  there’s a girl in ev-'ry door        Well,

|A              |G                 |
 it don’t mat- ter what you got ‘cause they're al-ways ask-in'

|D     |D            |
 more     Take it girls/boys!

SOLO BREAK: [12 M] ('VERSE' Chord Progression) -
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|D    |G    |D    |D    |G    |G    |


|D    |D    |A    |G    |D    |D    |
                           I

VERSE #4: [12 M]
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|D             |G          |D     |
 heard the riv-er ris- in’  ris-in’ up o-ver my head

|D      |D              |G           |
  Yeah,  I heard that riv-er rise up,  and this is what it

|D      |D     |A             |
 said,        Oh, I don’t need no live ones

|G            |D     |D           |
  I just take care of the dead     Whoa, whoa, whoa,

CHORUS #2: [10 M]
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|G           |D        |A           |
 Whoa,  mid-night  in Mem- phis,    well, you take me a-

|D   Em F#m|G             |D        |
-way  Oh,    mid- night in Mem- phis,  It’s a long,

|A       |G        |D     |D    |
  long time    be-fore the day

CHORUS #3: [12.5 M] 'CODA' -
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|G           |D        |A           |
 Whoa,  mid-night  in Mem- phis,    well, you take me a-

|D   Em F#m|G             |D        |
-way  Oh,    mid- night in Mem- phis,  It’s a long,

|A       |G        |D     |D    |
  long time    be-fore the day,        be-

             2/4 4/4
|D        |D    |D  |
-fore the day