Standard (EADGBE)

Most chords palm muted

Well, there is only one reason I stop in this place

 Let me stress that it ain’t the cuisine

The eggs are all runny, the hash browns smell funny and

 The coffee tastes like gasoline

 But there goes the one thing that I’ve been looking forward to

 For the last six-hundred miles

In a slow motion pan with 8 beers in each hand

 What’s here of heaven in her smile

 She is the prettiest waitress in Memphis

 And I think she’s flirting with me

Readin’ them specials- extra special

 She slipped a finger into my sweet tea

 O’ but a small stack of singles from a hard double-shift

 Will do terrible things to a smile

And the prettiest waitress in Memphis knows

 She’s only that way for a while

Somehow she remembered my name though its been

Several months since I passed through this way

She said she’s lived here all her twenty three years

I said I’d be here for a day

Ordered the pecan pie and with a wink of an eye

Got a slice as big as my head

And her name and her number on a Sweet-n-Low package

Is the best poem that I’ve ever read

She’s the prettiest waitress in Memphis,

And I know she's flirtin' with me.

Been reading them specials, extra special.

Slipped a finger into my sweet tea.

O' but a small stack of singles from a hard double-shift

Will do terrible things to her smile.

And the prettiest waitress in Memphis knows,

She's only that way for a while.

Well, the prettiest waitress in Memphis

Spilled her heart all over me

As I held her that night in a way she was right when she said,

“This will all change eventually”

Cause she ain’t the prettiest waitress in Memphis no more

But it’s not what you’re thinking- you see

The prettiest waitress in Memphis just quit

And she’s leaving Memphis with me

The prettiest ex-waitress in all of Memphis is

Leaving Memphis with me.