Just a country boy that combed his hair
And put on a shirt his mother made
and went on the air
And he shook it like a chorus girl
And he shook it like a Harlem queen
He shook it like a midnight rambler,
baby,
Like you never seen
Then he died
33 years ago.
RIP Elvis
Song lyrics by Gillian Welch
17 August 2010 at 8:59 am
Black velvet and that little boy’s smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that’ll bring you to your knees
Black velvet if you please
17 August 2010 at 10:18 am
“It’s better to burn out than it is to rust
The king is gone but he’s not forgotten”
17 August 2010 at 12:27 pm
“Elvis Presley ain’t got no soul
Bo Diddley is Rock and Roll”
Lyrics by Mos Def
18 August 2010 at 9:42 am
Surely, if you think that souls are eternal, they both have one, otherwise neither.
17 August 2010 at 1:59 pm
Shane Carter’s mum has released an Elvis covers album. I heard her being interviewed on RDU this week.
http://www.lovemusic.co.nz/index.php/news/956-shayne-carters-mums-debut-album
But what would Chuck “Fight the Power” D say?
17 August 2010 at 4:58 pm
One for the money,
Two for the show,
The King is for sale,
Now go cat, go.
Lyrics borrowed from Carl Perkins.
17 August 2010 at 5:44 pm
Strike another match, go start anew
it’s all over now, baby blue.
19 August 2010 at 2:58 pm
Waiting on Elvis, 1956
This place up in Charlotte called Chuck’s, where I used to waitress and who came in one night
but Elvis and some of his friends before his concert
at the Arena. I was twenty-six married but still
waiting tables and we got to joking around like you
do, and he was fingering the lace edge of my slip
where it showed below my hemline and I hadn’t even
seen it and I slapped him a little saying, You
sure are the one aren’t you feeling my face burn but
he was the kind of boy even meaness turned sweet in
his mouth.
Smiled at me and said, Yeah honey I guess I sure am.
Joyce Carol Oates.
19 August 2010 at 3:02 pm
Swooon!