[C]Listen to a story about a gal I know
She's my music making mama I'm her hillbilly beau
[F]She's sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings
[C]Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans
She's my [G7]music making mama from Memphis Tennes[C]see
She'll play a little rhythm do the boogie up right
The Tennessee polka maybe blues in the night
[F]Everybody travels from near and far
[C]To hear her when she swings it on her old guitar
She's my [G7]music making mama from Memphis Tennes[C]see
You can hear her in the evening when the sun sinks low
A singing and a picking on her old banjo
[F]You gotta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
[C]Everybody's calling her the Queen of the South
She's my [G7]fiddle playing mama from Memphis Tennes[C]see
You gotta start dancing when she gets in the groove
Plays the big bass fiddle or she'll yodel the blues
[F]She plays a down beat an off beat any old beat
[C]A breakdown a hoedown and does it up neat
She's my [G7]bass picking baby from Memphis Tennes[C]see
You'll know when my baby is a coming to town
All the jive jumping jitterbugs they gather around
[F]They keep yelling to my Queenie now honey let's go
[C]My baby starts a picking and a picking down low
My music [G7]making mama from Memphis Tennes[C]see
She'll play a little rhythm do the boogie up right
The Tennessee polka maybe blues in the night
[F]Everybody travels from near and far
[C]To hear her when she picks it on her old guitar
She's my [G7]music making mama from Memphis Tennes[C]see
You can hear her in the evening when the sun sinks low
A singing and a picking on her old banjo
[F]You gotta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
[C]Everybody's calling her the Queen of the South
She's my [G7]fiddle playing mama from Memphis Tennes[C]see
Listen to a story about a gal I know
She's my music making mama I'm her hillbilly beau
She's sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings
Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans
She's my music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
She'll play a little rhythm do the boogie up right
The Tennessee polka maybe blues in the night
Everybody travels from near and far
To hear her when she swings it on her old guitar
She's my music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
You can hear her in the evening when the sun sinks low
A singing and a picking on her old banjo
You gotta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
Everybody's calling her the Queen of the South
She's my fiddle playing mama from Memphis Tennessee
You gotta start dancing when she gets in the groove
Plays the big bass fiddle or she'll yodel the blues
She plays a down beat an off beat any old beat
A breakdown a hoedown and does it up neat
She's my bass picking baby from Memphis Tennessee
You'll know when my baby is a coming to town
All the jive jumping jitterbugs they gather around
They keep yelling to my Queenie now honey let's go
My baby starts a picking and a picking down low
My music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
She'll play a little rhythm do the boogie up right
The Tennessee polka maybe blues in the night
Everybody travels from near and far
To hear her when she picks it on her old guitar
She's my music making mama from Memphis Tennessee
You can hear her in the evening when the sun sinks low
A singing and a picking on her old banjo
You gotta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
Everybody's calling her the Queen of the South
She's my fiddle playing mama from Memphis Tennessee