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[Intro] E A G E [Verse]

^EHappy birthday, Elvis ^A ^G ^E You're not really dead ^A ^G ^E It's a lie, it's just a crock^A ^G ^E

Something some people said

I heard a ^Acassette of you speaking ^D ^C ^A On a telephone From a ^Bbunker beneath Graceland The ^Aking sits on his ^Ethrone ^A ^G ^E

^EHappy birthday, Elvis ^A ^G ^E Fifty-eight years old today ^A ^G ^E It isn't true, you didn't die ^A ^G ^E

No matter what they say

The ^Acolonel just decided ^D ^C ^A You should drop out of sight ^BAfter the Bicentennial The ^Atiming was just ^Eright ^A ^G ^E

[Chorus]

^AHappy birthday, Elvis You're alive in '93 They ^Etook away the body

But who the hell was he?

^AWho was that tall fat man They buried in your place? Just ^Banother imitator

Plastic surgeons did his face [Verse]

^EHappy birthday, Elvis ^A ^G ^E You still love to ball^A ^G ^E Somebody said she spotted you^A ^G ^E

In a Memphis mall

^ACheck out the checkout counters^D ^C ^A Read what the tabloids say ^BAliens abducted you But ^Asomehow you got ^Eaway

^EHappy birthday, Elvis ^A ^G ^E I for one will not shed tears^A ^G ^E You'll be back for the millennium^A ^G ^E

That's in seven measly years

And ^Aif you're blue and lonely ^D ^C ^A Pick up that telephone Down in that ^Bbunker beneath Graceland The ^Aking sits on his ^Ethrone In a ^Bbunker beneath Graceland The ^Aking sits on his ^Ethrone ^A ^G ^E

Loudon Wainwright III - Happy birthday elvis