Belle and Sebastian – A Century Of Elvis (Guitar)
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
D A G We were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round, looking out the window D G D It was quiet, and then in the car park across the road we saw Elvis: A "Look, there beside the postman's van"
N.C.
And he was walking round the postman's van
D Looking in the open door A G D He looked as if he was thinking about getting in but then the postman came back G And he swaggered off D A Walked past the window and down the stairs
N.C.
And then at the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office
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He started licking the pavement
D G Every night now since we moved in that new house D G There's this noise outside the door at just about D Half seven or eight o'clock every night A And if we go and look outside the door D A Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in G D And then he wanders into the living room G Maybe sits down on one of the chairs D Or even lies down on the floor A Bm He doesn't say much, he just stays there for an hour or two, watching the TV Bm We talk to him a bit (aaaaah) G And then around ten o'clock (aaaaah) D A he'll go away again and not come back until the next night (aaaaah) Bm There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here, around the house (aaaaah) G D Although it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite like the country - it's dead hidden (aaaaah) A Safe I suppose, made for night living (aaaaah) A There's a lot of squirrels and birds A And Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there G When he's jumped over the fence on his way to Byres Road D Sometimes you can go out walking A And when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore A So it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you G D I suppose that's - that's why he spends so much time there that's why he's come to live there D Or maybe it's just the squirrels D N.C. I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot D A G There's these two videos that we got for wedding presents D Called the e-files, e-files one and e-files two G D About how Elvis is supposed to be still alive A And one time when he came round we were watching one of those D A But he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair G D He was playing with his collar a bit, and we watched it right through G D A And then when it finished he just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything Bm The first few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all (aaaaah) G I wasn't really sure what to say (aaaaah) D And Karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than I do (aaaaah) A He had quite a strange manner though, he'd go into your stuff (aaaaah) Bm G and look through it, then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while G But he'd never make any comment about any of it D Seemed pretty rude to me G I just watched whatever Karen did, and listened to how she talked to him and then D After a while I started to copy that G And tell him a few things D Not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not G I think the first time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine D And I said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen G And how it was that we'd come to be living there D I thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much G so, I thought he might want to know how it was that it came about D We did it all over backwards, I told him (aaaaah) G First of all we got to know each other and then a while after that we met (aaaaah) D G And when we'd known each other for bout seven years we decided to have an anniversary (aaaaah) G And that went quite well (aaaaah) D So after the anniversary we had a honeymoon (aaaaah) G And that went well too (aaaaah) D So after that we decided that we would get married (aaaaah) D G That's why we're living there now (aaaaah) D I used to think my dad was Elvis (aaaaah) G D G D But I haven't told him that yet. I haven't told my dad either... (aaaaah)