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Walking in Memphis

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Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis (Official Music Video)

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Marc Cohn - Walking in memphis (with lyrics)

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Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis

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Walking in Memphis (Remastered)

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Marc Cohn: Walking in Memphis (Including preamble)

"Walking in Memphis" is a song composed and originally recorded by the American singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, for whom it remains his signature song. Cohn said the song is "100 percent autobiographical". He described it as a song about "a Jewish gospel-music-lover", and as a pretty literal transcription of a visit I made ... in 1986. I went to Graceland, I heard Al Green preach the gospel, I saw W. C. Handy's statue. But the song is about more than just a place, it's about a kind of spiritual awakening, one of those trips where you're different when you leave.