Happy Birthday Elvis
Loudon Wainwright III
[Intro] [Verse] Happy birthday Elvis You’re not really dead It’s a lie it’s just a crock Something some people said I heard a cassette of you speaking On a telephone From a bunker beneath Graceland The king sits on his throne Happy birthday Elvis Fifty-eight years old today It isn’t true you didn’t die No matter what they say The colonel just decided You should drop out of sight After the Bicentennial The timing was just right [Chorus] Happy birthday Elvis You’re alive in ’93 They took away the body But who the hell was he? Who was that tall fat man They buried in your place? Just another imitator Plastic surgeons did his face [Verse] Happy birthday Elvis You still love to ball Somebody said she spotted you In a Memphis mall Check out the checkout counters Read what the tabloids say Aliens abducted you But somehow you got away Happy birthday Elvis I for one will not shed tears You’ll be back for the millennium That’s in seven measly years And if you’re blue and lonely Pick up that telephone Down in that bunker beneath Graceland The king sits on his throne In a bunker beneath Graceland The king sits on his throne