People say them Greyhound bus don't run
Yeah, people say them Greyhound bus don't run
Come to West Memphis, Arkansas
And look down Highway 61...

Yeah, lotta things that most folks don't know much about... Fred McDowell was saying just that in his song "61 Highway"... He was atlkin' 'bout folks in Memphis, Tennessee right over that steel bridge... Yeah, folks in Memphis to this day say stuff like, "I ain't been over on *that* side... Like *that* side was some kinda evil world... Yeah, them fine Mephis, Tennessee folk didn't know nuthin' much about West Memphis and they sho nuff didn't know much 'bout the lives of the black folk who lived from West Memphis south thru the Delta of Mississippi...

Same way today... I been thru neighborhoods in NE Wsahington D.C. maybe a hundred or more times on my way to play blues at an old barber shop way up in NE and these neighborhoods is like what Mississippi Fred McDowell was talkin' about... Lotta folks don't know what is really going down... And it ain't purdy... Makes you wanta scream sometimes to see folks who you know ain't got much chance to ever find their way here as MiziAzizi and Freda have an' makes you crazy that you just can't find the right magic wand to make all that stuff go away...

Yeah, come to West Memphis
Look down Highway 61...

Bobert