Motel In Memphis

Were you there when the man from Atlanta was murdered in Memphis?
 Did you see him lying at the Lorraine Motel?
 Did you hear them say that the CIA is a witness
 To the murder of a man at a motel in Memphis?
 Motel in Memphis
 Motel in Memphis
 Run and tell somebody there's blood on the riverside
 Oh, muddy water, rollin' to Memphis
 If you were there, you'd swear it was more than a man who died
 Did you see Coretta? She was sobbing on the corner in her black veil?
 Did you see Mr. Crump in a white coat grin?
 Did you walk downriver where the cottonwoods are swinging
 With ghostly bodies of men?
 Motel in Memphis
 Motel in Memphis
 Run and tell somebody there's blood on the riverside
 Oh, muddy water rollin' to Memphis
 If you were there, you'd swear it was more than a man who died
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 Were you there with Mahalia wailing at the funeral?
 Did you watch them lower his casket in?
 Did you tremble when you thought about the future
 And cry out for a martyred man?
 Motel in Memphis
 Motel in Memphis
 Run and tell somebody there's blood on the riverside
 Oh, muddy water rollin' to Memphis
 If you were there, you'd swear it was more than a man who died