There is a 7-11 just north of Orlando,
Creme-filled snackcakes enough to spare,
And to that place
The King is still known to go,
Sequined shirts and ducktailed hair.
Blue, blue Slurpees we drink in cars,
Yellow cheese, Mallow Pies,
Big Gulp set between the thighs,
Waiting for him to catch our eye.
We found
Elvis, Elvis, Elvis
King can you hear me now?
The Colonel’s boxed
and in the ground for sure
King, sing with me somehow.
Blue blue footwear he dons no more
Yellow trousers on the rise
Big ears tufting hair of downy gray,
But still a twinkle in his eyes
When we saw
Elvis, Elvis, Elvis.
Most excellent! Favorits Elvis lyrics, that would be Knopfler’s Calling Elvis:
calling elvis – is anybody home
calling elvis – I’m here all alone
did he leave the building
or can he come to the phone
calling elvis – I’m here all alone
well tell him I was calling just to wish him well
let me leave my number – heartbreak hotel
oh love me tender – baby dob’t be cruel
return to sender – treat me like a fool
calling elvis – is anybody home
calling elvis – I’m here all alone
did he leave the building
or can he come to the phone
calling elvis – I’m here all alone
why don’t you go get him – I’m his biggest fan
you gotta tell him – he’s still the man
long distance baby – so far from home
don’t you think maybe you could put him on
well tell him I was calling just to wish him well
let me leave my number – heartbreak hotel
oh love me tender – baby don’t be cruel
return to sender – treat me like a fool
calling elvis – is anybody home
calling elvis – I’m here all alone
did he leave the building
or can he come to the phone
calling elvis – I’m here all alone
Everybody needs a hobby, I guess…
Righteous, man. Do “Almost cut my hair”
Mojo Nixon/Skid Roper: Elvis is Everywhere
When I look out into your eyes out there,
When I look out into your faces,
You know what I see?
I see a little bit of Elvis
In each and every one of you out there.
Let me tell you.
Wellllllll…
Elvis is everywhere,
Elvis is everything,
Elvis is everybody,
Elvis is still the King.
Man oh man What I want you to see
Is that the big E’s
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere, man!
He’s in everything.
He’s in everybody.
Elvis is in your jeans.
He’s in your cheesburgers.
Elvis is in Nutty Buddies!
Elvis is in your mom!
He’s in everybody.
He’s in the young, the old,
the fat, the skinny,
the white, the black
the brown and the blue
people got Elvis in them too.
Elvis is in everybody out there.
Everybody’s got Elvis in them.
Everybody except one person that is,
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Elvis,
The Anti-Elvis!
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in him,
lemme tell ya.
Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him.
And Elvis is in Joan Rivers
but he’s trying to get out, man! He’s trying to get out!
Listen up Joanie Baby!
Elvis is everywhere,
Elvis is everything,
Elvis is everybody,
Elvis is still the King.
Man oh man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E’s
Inside of you and me
Man, there’s a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck’s going on?
Let me tell you!
Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!
Who built Stonehenge?
ELVIS!
Yeah, man you see guys walking down the street
pushing shopping carts,
and you think they’re talking to Allah,
they’re talking to themselves.
Man, no they’re talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Triangle?
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats.
Aahh! The Sailing Elvis!
Captain Elvis!
Commodore Elvis it is!
Yeah man, you know people from outer space,
people from outer space they come up to me.
They don’t look like like Doctor Spock.
They don’t look like Klingons,
all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Elvis.
ELVIS!
Everybody in outer space looks like Elvis.
Cause Elvis is a perfect being.
We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness
Soon all will become Elvis.
Everything everywhere will be Elvis.
Why do you think they call it evolution anyway?
It’s really Elvislution!
Elvislution!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the King.
Man oh man What I want you to see
Is that the big E’s Inside of you and me.
That’s right ladies and gentlemen,
The time has come!
Time has come to talk
To that little bit of Elvis inside of you.
Talk to it!
Call it up!
Say “Elvis, heal me!”
“Save me, Elvis!”
“Make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light.”
That’s right!
You’ve got that Elvis inside of you
and he’s talkin to you.
He says he wants you to sing!
Everybody’s got to sing like the king!
Like the king
Get that leg going now
Get your lip too.
Not no fool Billy Idol lip either.
Everybody!
Yeah, we’re rockin’ now!
Elvis is with us.
He’s with us and he’s speaking to us.
He says “Peoples!”
“Peoples!”
“Everybody!”
“Everybody got to sing!”
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the King.
Man oh man What I want you to see
Is that the big E’s
Inside of you and me.
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the King.
Man oh man What I want you to see
Is that the big E’s
Inside of you and me.
Elvis!
In other news, Debbie Gibson is pregnant with my two-headed love child.
Sorry the above was so long; probably should have linked to it.
A rendition I heard wouldn’t make it more acceptable to redstaters, but I loved it. It was at one of Young’s annual Bridge School Benefits. At the end of the evening all the performers got on stage and did “Helpless.” Patti Smith ad libbed several verses at the end that added a lot to the song.
File under totally useless information…
By coincidence, I just enjoyed watching Neil Young and The Band and Joni Mitchell do “Helpless” on a DVD of The Last Waltz.
Great flick. I am a huge fan of The Band.
And Marshall Tucker Band, who my son heard for the first time today during a twofer Tuesday.
Sorry, what was the question? I’m very drunk.
Believe it or not – I saw CSN at Wolftrap on Saturday. SO many old hippies with their younger hippie wives. SO many ponytail and bald spot combos.
And in the encore, David Crosby brought one of his love children out on stage so they could sing “Teach Your Children Well” to her.
I turned to my friends and said: “I got nothing.”
LMFAO!
(drunk too)