Story Behind The Song

this is the country version of Madam Butterfly.

Song Description

When a would-be star marries a groupie, he didn't see what would happen if he didn't take the marriage seriously.

Lyrics

Memphis Moon 1998

Prologue:
This here song?s a warning to all you fellers who think you can have your cake and eat it too. You see, I found out the hard way that I?d a been much better off being a one-woman man.

CHORUS:
Well, I still remember
Everything about her
The way she looked and the smell of her perfume
I did her wrong (so wrong)
She?s been ? gone (so long)
So shine on Memphis Moon

Me and the boys had the hottest little band
coming out of Memphis town
We?d play our guitars in smoky little bars
and the girls came from miles around

She walked in that fateful night,
when the Memphis moon was low and bright
My, she was such a beautiful sight,
I knew I?d be a settlin? down.

We got married in a hurry, we knew that it was love for sure
Tied it tight on a moon-lit night, in love for ever more.

But the boys made a record that was topping the charts,
It was a swingin? little cover of the ?Queen of Hearts?

If I?d a known success was going to tear us apart,
I never would have taking the tour

CHORUS:
But, I told ?er I?d remember, everything about her?

(SPOKEN)
So I kissed her on the forehead and headed out for the open road

BRIDGE:
Six weeks later, Tuscaloosa Alabama,
in a motel 6 with a pretty little mamma
In the back of the bus passing into Oklahoma,
I was busy getting busy with a little Linda Loma

Louisiana, Carolina, Indiana, California, back into Tennessee.

Every night, the boys and me,
we?d party till the break of dawn.
I?d slip off the ring and go out for a fling
and my baby, she never caught on

But at the homecoming show she caught me back stage
In the arms of a woman who was half her age
I said, ?Hold on, honey. I can explain.?
But, by then, she was gone.

CHORUS: and then I remembered?

BRIDGE 2:
Well, I found a note on the bedroom door
said ?If I can?t have you to myself, I can?t go on no more.?

They found her car on the tracks of the eight-fifteen
and a heavy duty freight out of New Orleans
They said it was the worst wreck they?d ever seen
and she gone for ever more.

So, I quit the band and I started to drink,
I stay as drunk as a man can be
One more drink ought to push me to the brink
of forgetting this memory

And now I?ve ridden every bar stool in Memphis.
Probably in the state of Tennessee
Some day soon that Memphis moon is gonna be the end of me

CHORUS: Cause it makes me remember?