Loudon Wainwright III – Happy Birthday Elvis (Guitar Live)

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[Intro] E A G E [Verse]
E                     A G E
[tab]                       A G E
You're not really dead

                             A G E
It's a lie, it's just a crock
Something some people said
          A                        D C A
I heard a cassette of you speaking
On a telephone
       B
From a bunker beneath Graceland

    A                E      A G E
The king sits on his throne

E                     A G E
Happy birthday, Elvis

                            A G E
Fifty-eight years old today

                              A G E
It isn't true, you didn't die
No matter what they say
    A                    D C A
The colonel just decided
You should drop out of sight
B
After the Bicentennial

    A               E     A G E
The timing was just right
[Chorus]
A
Happy birthday, Elvis
You're alive in '93
     E
They took away the body
But who the hell was he?
A
Who was that tall fat man
They buried in your place?
     B
Just another imitator
Plastic surgeons did his face [Verse]
E                     A G E
Happy birthday, Elvis

                      A G E
You still love to ball

                             A G E
Somebody said she spotted you
In a Memphis mall
A                              D C A
Check out the checkout counters
Read what the tabloids say
B
Aliens abducted you

    A               E
But somehow you got away

E                     A G E
Happy birthday, Elvis

                             A G E
I for one will not shed tears

                                 A G E
You'll be back for the millennium
That's in seven measly years
    A                         D C A
And if you're blue and lonely
Pick up that telephone
             B
Down in that bunker beneath Graceland

    A                E
The king sits on his throne

     B
In a bunker beneath Graceland

    A                E       A G E
The king sits on his throne