On Elvis Presleys Birthday
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Intro
G D Am C G D Am C G
Verse
G D
I can't say that I love this place where I live
Am C
This particular geographical location but I've grown use to it
G D
And now I miss it when I'm away, of course when I was a kid
Am C
My father would take me with him down to the bowery where the bums where
G D
And in the restaurants supply stores he would buy shiny steel refrigerators
Am C
And deadly looking stoves
G D
While I begged him to take to the army navy surplus stores on canal street
Am C G
to buy big dead bullets
Verse
G D Am C
He wore a short cordury jacket, an informal hat with puff of feather
G D Am C
And he talked with his hands in his pants pockets jangling change
G D
Driving his Cadillac it was Elvis Presley's birthday
Am C
They said it on the radio
G D Am C
My father like Elvis and it was worderful
G
We drove trough black nieghborhoods
D Am C G
On Long Island's north shore When Elvis was alive
Verse
G D
My father was from Brooklyn and the depression left his mark
Am C
From picking up coal on the railroad tracks
G D Am C
He didn't have a good word to say about Franklin Delano Roosvelt
G D
Later I liked elegant hotel bars
Am C
where I could drink under F. Scott Fitzgerald Skies
G D Am C
The coolest of the cool, never a child on Elvis Presley's birthday's
G D Am C
My dead father jangling change
Outro
G D Am C
This is an unreal City, you can be anybody when you're alone
Ending
G D Am C G D Am C G
How to play On Elvis Presleys Birthday
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