Intro as played live (but similar to recorded version)

e | ------------------------------------------------------------ | 
B | ------------------------------------------------------------ | 
G | -------------------------6-4-2------------------------------ | 
D | -2---2-2-/7-6-4-2---2-2-/7-6-4-2---2-2--------2~------------ | 
A | -2---2-2--------2---2-2--------2---2-2--4-2-0-2~------------ | 
E | -0---0-0--------0---0-0--------0---0-0--5-4-2-0~-(let ring)- | 


Most chords palm muted

E5                             
Well, there is only one reason I stop in this place
                                B5
Let me stress that it ain?t the cuisine
The eggs are all runny, the hash browns smell funny and
                       E5
The coffee tastes like gasoline

          E5      
But there goes the one thing that I?ve been looking forward to
                         B5
For the last six-hundred miles
In a slow motion pan with 8 beers in each hand
                             E5
What?s here of heaven in her smile

           E5         B5           E5
She is the prettiest waitress in Memphis
      F5                        B5
And I think she?s flirting with me
Readin? them specials- extra special
                                   E5
She slipped a finger into my sweet tea
         E5
O? but a small stack of singles from a hard double-shift
                             B5
Will do terrible things to a smile
And the prettiest waitress in Memphis knows
                          E (intro riff)
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.