Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again(Live at Oakland Coliseum Arena， Oakland， CA， Dec - Grateful Dead

Well the ragman draws circles up and down the block
I'd ask him what's the matter but I know that he don't talk
And the ladies treat me kindly and they furnish me with tape
But deep inside my heart I know I can't escape
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Well Shakespeare he's in the alley
With his pointed shoes and bell
Speaking with some French girl who says she knows me well
And me I'd send a message to find out if she's talked
But the post office has been stolen
And the mailbox is locked
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Mona tried to warn me stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
And I said oh I didn't know that
But then again there's only one I've met
He just smoked my eyelids and he punched my cigarette
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Grandpa died last week and they buried him in the rocks
Everyone still talks about how badly they are shocked
But me I expected it to happen I knew he'd lost control
When he built a fire on Main Street
And he shot it full of holes
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Now the senator he came down here
Showing everyone his gun
Handing out free tickets to the wedding of his son
And me I nearly got busted and wouldn't it be my luck
To get caught without a ticket
And be discovered beneath a truck
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Now the preacher looks so baffled
When I asked him why he dressed
With twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest
But he cursed me when I proved it to him
Then I said you see not even you can hide
You see you're just like me and I hope you're satisfied
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again
Now the rainman gave me two cures
Then he said jump right in
The first was Texas medecine
The second was just railroad gin
And like a fool I mixed them up
And it strangled up my mind
And now people just get uglier
And I've got no sense of time
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
When Ruthie says come see me in honkytonk lagoon
Where I can watch her waltz for free neath her
Panamanian moon
And I said oh come on now you know about my debutante
And she says your debutante knows just what you need but
I know what you want
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Now the bricks they lay on Grand Street
Where the neon madmen climb
They all fall there so perfectly it all seems so well timed
And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all of these things twice twice
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again
Oh mama can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again