Loudon Wainwright III - Happy Birthday Elvis

      [Intro]
E A G E

[Verse]
E                     A G E
Happy birthday, Elvis
                       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