A Century of Elvis
A Century of Elvis

A Century of Elvis easy guitar chords by Belle And Sebastian

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  • Verse 1
    We 
    were 
    sitting 
    in 
    the living 

    room 
    on 
    the sofa 

    The wrong 
    way round, 

    look
    ing 
    out the window. 

    It 
    was 
    quiet, 
    and then 
    in 
    the car 
    park 

    across 
    the 
    road 
    we saw 
    Elvis 

    "Look, 
    there, 

    beside 
    the postman's 
    van" 

    And 
    he 
    was walking 
    round 
    the 

    postman's 
    van, 

    Verse 2
    Looking 
    in 
    the open 
    door. 

    He 
    looked 
    as if 
    he was 

    thinking 
    about getting 
    in, 

    But 
    then 
    the postman 
    came 
    back, 

    And he swaggered 
    off, 

    walked 
    past 
    the 
    window 

    And 
    down 
    the stair
    s, 

    And then 
    at the 
    bottom 
    of the 
    stairs 

    right 
    by the 
    caretaker's 
    office, 

    He 
    started 
    licking 
    the pavement. 

    Verse 3
    Every 
    night 
    now since 
    we moved 

    into 
    that 
    new 
    house 

    There's 
    this 
    noise 
    outside 
    the door 

    At just 
    about 
    half 
    seven 
    or 
    eight 

    o'clock 
    every 
    night. 

    And 
    if 
    we 
    go and 
    look 
    outside 
    the 
    door, 

    Verse 4

    Elvis'll be 
    standing 
    there 

    waiting 
    to 
    be let 
    in. 

    And 
    then he wanders 
    into 

    the living 
    room 

    Maybe 
    sits 
    down 
    on 
    one of 
    the chairs 

    or 
    even 
    lies 
    down 
    on the 
    floor. 

    He doesn't 
    say 
    much, 

    he just 
    stays 
    there 
    for 
    an hour 
    or 
    two, 

    Verse 5
    Watching 
    the 
    TV. 

    We 
    talk 
    to 
    him 
    a bit, and 
    then 
    around 

    ten 
    o'clock 
    he'll 
    go away 
    again, 

    And 
    not come 
    back 
    until 
    the 
    next 
    night. 

    There's 
    a lot 
    of lanes 
    and 
    stuff 
    around 
    here, 

    around 
    the house. 

    Verse 6
    Although 
    it's 
    right in 
    the middle 
    of 

    the city 
    it 
    seems 
    quite 
    like 
    the country, 

    It's 
    dead 
    hidden, 
    safe 
    suppose, 

    Made 
    for 
    night 
    living. 

    There's a 
    lot 
    of squirrels 
    and birds, 

    Verse 7

    And Stuart 
    says 
    he's 
    seen 

    about 
    nine foxes 
    there 

    When 
    he's 
    jumping 
    over the 
    fence 

    on his 
    way 
    to Prior's 
    road. 

    Sometimes 
    you can 
    go 
    out walking, 

    And 
    when you've 
    been 

    Verse 8
    out for 
    a wee 
    while 

    Even 
    you 
    don't 
    know 

    where you 
    are 
    anymore, 

    So 
    it would be 
    pretty 
    hard 

    for 
    anyone 
    else 
    to find 
    you. 

    suppose 
    that's 
    why 
    he spends 

    so much 
    here, 

    Verse 9
    That's 
    why 
    he's 
    come 
    to live 
    here, 


    Or maybe 
    it's 
    just 
    the squirrels. 

    read 
    about 
    somewhere 
    that 
    he likes 

    squirrels 
    quite 
    a lot. 

    Verse 10
    There's these 
    two 
    videos that 

    we 
    got 
    for 
    wedding 
    presents 

    Called 
    the 
    E-files, the 
    the 
    E-files 

    one 
    one and 
    E-files 
    two, 

    two, 

    About 
    how 
    Elvis 
    is sup

    posed 
    to be 
    still 
    alive. 

    And 
    one time 
    when he came 
    round 
    we 

    Verse 11
    were watching 
    one 
    of those, 

    But he 
    didn't 
    say 
    anything, 

    he just 
    sat 
    on the 
    armchair. 

    He was 
    playing 
    with 
    his 
    collar 
    a bit, 

    And 
    we 
    watched 
    it all 
    through, 

    And 
    then 
    when 
    it finished 

    he just 
    got 
    up 

    And walked 
    off 
    into the 
    mist 
    and 

    didn't 
    say anything. 

    Verse 12

    The first 
    few times 
    he came 
    round 

    didn't speak 
    to him 
    at all. 

    wasn't 
    really 
    sure 
    what 
    to say. 

    And Karen 
    spoke 
    to him 

    quite 
    lot 

    She seemed 
    to know 
    what 

    to 
    do more 
    than 
    I do. 

    Verse 13
    He had 
    quite 
    a strange 
    manner, 

    He'd 
    just 
    go into 
    your 
    stuff 

    and 
    look 
    through 
    it, 

    Then 
    he'd 
    maybe 
    pick 
    something 
    up 

    and 
    play 
    with 
    it 
    for a wee 
    while, 

    But 
    he'd 
    never 
    make 
    any 

    Verse 14
    comment 
    about any 
    of 
    it. 

    Seemed 
    pretty 
    rude 
    to me. 

    just 
    watched 
    whatever 
    Kar
    en 
    did, 

    And 
    listened 
    to how she 
    talked 
    to him, 

    And 
    then 
    af
    ter 
    a while 

    started 
    to 
    copy 
    that 

    Verse 15
    And tell 
    him a 
    few 
    thing
    s, 

    Not 
    really 
    bothered 
    about 
    whether 
    he 

    responded 
    or said 
    anything 
    back 
    or not. 

    Verse 16
    think 
    the 
    first 
    time 
    I spoke 
    to him 

    we were 
    sitting 
    up 
    on the mezzanine 

    And 
    said 
    that 
    would tell 

    him about 
    me 
    and wee 
    Karen, 

    And 
    how 
    it was 
    that we'd 
    come 

    to 
    be living 
    here. 

    I thought 
    he 
    probably 
    liked 
    the 
    fact 

    that 
    we 
    were living 
    here 

    Verse 17
    Because 
    he 
    came round 
    so 
    much, 

    So 
    I thought 
    he might 
    want 
    to know 
    how 

    Verse 18
    it was 
    that 
    it 
    came about. 


    We did 
    it all over 
    backwards, 
    I told 
    him. 

    First 
    of all 
    we got 
    to know 
    each 
    other, 

    And then 
    a while 
    after 
    that 
    we met, 

    And 
    when we'd 
    known 
    each 

    other 
    for 
    about 
    seven 
    years 

    Verse 19
    We 
    decided 
    to have 
    an anniversary, 

    and that 
    went 
    quite 
    well, 

    So after 
    the 
    anniversary 
    we 
    had a 
    honeymoon, 

    and 
    that went 
    well 
    too. 

    So 
    after 
    that 
    we 
    decided 
    that 

    we would 
    get 
    married, 

    And 
    that's 
    why 
    we're 
    living 
    here 
    now. 

    Verse 20
    used to 
    think 
    my dad 
    was Elvis, 

    But 
    I haven't 
    told 
    him that 
    yet. 

    Outro 1
    I haven't 
    told 
    my dad 
    either. 



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