Back to Memphis

Back to Memphis is a Chuck Berry song, sung here by The Band:



and here by Levon Helm (who died of throat cancer in 2012) live in Nashville in 2008 on his 2nd Grammy-winning album:

I've been struggling up here, child, trying to make a living.
Everybody wants to take, nobody like giving.
I wish I was in Memphis back home there with my Mama.
The only clothes I got left that ain't rags is my pajamas.
No brotherly love, no help, no danger,
Just a great big town full of cold hearted strangers.

I went hungry in New York, and Chicago was no better;
But today, my dear mother wrote and told me in her letter,
Son, come back to Memphis and live here with your Mama.
You can walk down Beale Street, honey, wearing your pajamas.
You know home folks here, we let you do just what you want to,
And I born you and raised you right here on the corner.

I'm going to leave here in the morning and walk down to the station.
I've got just enough money to pay my transportation.
I'm going back to Memphis, back home with my Mama
If I have to ride that bus barefooted in pajamas.
Back home in Memphis, no moaning and groaning,
I know everything will be all right in the morning.

I heard this song recently on Down In The Alley, a radio show on WEVL, but I honestly don't remember which version they played. I found the Chuck Berry version on Spotify but couldn't find a video. There seems to be a completely different song with the same title written and sung by The Band.