Ok, folk masters, who performed this song:

"Oh I'm bound downstream on the Memphis ferry,
Like a runaway snapping all ties,
With a bundle of clothes over my shoulder
I'm going down where the living is
Going down there to that Big City
And there I'll tell the Lord
"Give me a girl tonight."

Bonus points for the songwriter who wrote it...

Well, I can tell you that it's ancient Egyptian, and that it ain't talkin' about Memphis Tenessee. And I wouldn't even be lying, as far as I know!

You win. It is from The Eloquent Peasant. But it's a Memphis Blues if ever there was such. Rollin' on the river of de Nile.

Things change. Things stay the same. For all the efficiency of the production line, the design of the human remains stuck in a rut.