A Century of Elvis chords by
Belle And Sebastian

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Verse 1
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We were sitting in the living
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room on the sofa
The wrong way round,
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looking out the window.
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It was quiet, and then in the car park
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across the road we saw Elvis
"Look, there,
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beside the postman's van"
And he was walking round the
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postman's van,

Verse 2
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Looking in the open door.
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He looked as if he was
thinking about getting in,
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But then the postman came back,
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And he swaggered off,
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walked past the window
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And down the stairs,
And then at the bottom of the stairs
right by the caretaker's office,
He started licking the pavement.
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Verse 3
Every night now since we moved
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into that new house
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There's this noise outside the door
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At just about half seven or eight
o'clock every night.
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And if we go and look outside the door,

Verse 4
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Elvis'll be standing there
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waiting to be let in.
And then he wanders into
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the living room
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Maybe sits down on one of the chairs
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or even lies down on the floor.
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He doesn't say much,
he just stays there for an hour or two,

Verse 5
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Watching the TV.
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We talk to him a bit, and then around
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ten o'clock he'll go away again,
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And not come back until the next night.
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There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here,
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around the house.

Verse 6
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Although it's right in the middle of
the city it seems quite like the country,
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It's dead hidden, safe I suppose,
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Made for night living.
There's a lot of squirrels and birds,

Verse 7
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And Stuart says he's seen
about nine foxes there
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When he's jumping over the fence
on his way to Prior's road.
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Sometimes you can go out walking,
And when you've been

Verse 8
out for a wee while
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Even you don't know
where you are anymore,
So it would be pretty hard
for anyone else to find you.
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I suppose that's why he spends
so much here,

Verse 9
That's why he's come to live here,
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Or maybe it's just the squirrels.
I read about somewhere that he likes
squirrels quite a lot.

Verse 10
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There's these two videos that
we got for wedding presents
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Called the E-files, the the E-files
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one one and E-files two,
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two,
About how Elvis is sup
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posed to be still alive.
And one time when he came round we

Verse 11
were watching one of those,
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But he didn't say anything,
he just sat on the armchair.
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He was playing with his collar a bit,
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And we watched it all through,
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And then when it finished
he just got up
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And walked off into the mist and
didn't say anything.
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Verse 12
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The first few times he came round
I didn't speak to him at all.
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I  wasn't really sure what to say.
And Karen spoke to him
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quite a  lot -
She seemed to know what
to do more than I do.

Verse 13
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He had quite a strange manner,
He'd just go into your stuff
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and look through it,
Then he'd maybe pick something up
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and play with it for a wee while,
But he'd never make any

Verse 14
comment about any of it.
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Seemed pretty rude to me.
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I just watched whatever Karen did,
And listened to how she talked to him,
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And then after a while I
started to copy that

Verse 15

And tell him a few things,

Not really bothered about whether he

responded or said anything back or not.

Verse 16
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I think the first time I spoke to him
we were sitting up on the mezzanine
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And I said that I would tell
him about me and wee Karen,
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And how it was that we'd come
to be living here.
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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.
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We did it all over backwards, I told him.
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First of all we got to know each other,
And then a while after that we met,
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And when we'd known each
other for about seven years

Verse 19
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We decided to have an anniversary,
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and that went quite well,
So after the anniversary we had a honeymoon,
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and that went well too.
So after that we decided that
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we would get married,
And that's why we're living here now.

Verse 20

I 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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