Chords for Elvis "monologue"; August 22, 1969 - Las Vegas, Nevada

_ Ugly looking thing.
_ I'd like to talk to you a little bit ladies and gentlemen about
How I got into this business and when? _
And a lot of the things that happened from my side of the story
_ There's lots been told from
_ Everybody else but not from my side _
so I'd like to
_ Clear my throat.
I'd _ like to tell you a little bit about _
What really happened to me, you know back when I started out as a child _ _ _
No wrong I
started _ I
Started out.
Can I borrow you a little thing?
_ It's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ a tough life man.
I'll tell you for sure _ _ _ I _
was uh, _ I
Was driving a truck and I was studying to be an electrician and the people I work for are here tonight
And they're really wonderful people.
I just like you to say hello to mr.
Miss tipper and it's her birthday.
Hello _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ I
Was driving a truck for those people and I was hauling electrical equipment
chasing girls in the truck, you know and staying gone too long and I
Got wired the wrong way.
That's what happened.
So I
Went into a record company one day in my lunch break to make a record, you know for my own use
And the guy the guy put the record out about a year and a half later
And overnight in my hometown and Memphis _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ became pretty big overnight in my hometown young people were saying who is he what is he is he is he you know
I'm saying Emma.
I'm uh so _
It started to happen overnight and the record got to be pretty big in certain parts of the country
But nobody really knew who I was yet
so I started to play a little nightclubs _ and
little football fields
_ and little alleys and you know little
freaky rooms with things crawling around in them and _ _ Excuse me
They're gonna get me man.
It's just a matter of time.
The word is out on me already
Watch him.
He's a squirrel.
He's a squirrel.
He's just out of the trees, man so
_ _ I did that for like a year and a half.
I work nightclubs and so forth in 1956.
_ I met Colonel Sanders Parker _ Parker _
They _ got me a bunch of chicken and stuff _
What's that a ghost? _ _ _ _ _
So I what was I oh, yeah, I met the Colonel to Colonel Parker.
So anyway, they arranged to put me on television _ _ I
Clear my nose and they took me off television _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ They said me no snorting on cameras, huh, so _ _ _ So _ _ _ _ _ _ I
Went on the Jackie Gleason show first, and then I went on I said did three of the Jackie Gleason
Tommy Dorsey shows
And I never been out of my hometown in my life, you know, so it was all new to me, man
I went to New York.
I'm looking up at the building to one
_ _ _ They said watch him had sideburns _ _
_ _ And
You think it's freaky now long hair and sideburns man 14 years ago.
You couldn't walk on the street get him get him Get it
He's a wooly booger get it So _ _
_ _ Anyway, _ I did the Jackie Gleason shows and at that time it was a lot of controversy about it.
You didn't see people moving
_ out in public, you know _
They were getting on in the back room, but you didn't see it on public too much so
when I went to the Sullivan show they _ _
They photographed me from the waist up, you know
_ Sullivan's over on the sidelines going some bitch, you know _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ saying thank you.
Thank you.
I don't know what he was calling me at the time.
I thought it was nice _ _ _ So I _ _
So I did three or four of the Sullivan shows and _
things really started to happen for me and I did Steve Allen show and
They were gonna tame me down on the Steve Allen show.
So they
_ Addressed me in a tuxedo, you know, I'm singing to a dog on a stool
The dogs in heat.
I didn't know it, you know _ _ _ _
So I'm saying you ain't nothing but a hound on a dog _ _
_ _ _ I'm
Saying watch it watch it.
So they take the dog and put it in another room, you know
_ protected from me _ so
_ Well, I'll tell you what 14 years.
I've done a drain boy
_ _ So anyway, my next move was to Hollywood that's how it happens you get a record and you go on television
Then you go to Hollywood.
So
The town wasn't ready for me and I wasn't ready for it.
You know, I was 19 or 20 years old [E] and
_ They'd say action and I was going _
[N] You know, I said well watch him boy.
He's the original squirrel, you know
so I did a picture called let me tender and _ _ _ _ _ And
_ _ Loving you loving her _ _ loving just whoever I get my hands on at the time, you know _
_ _ _ And _ then I made
See I did the jailhouse rock _ and
Then I did King Creole.
I did four pictures.
Anyway, I got getting used to the Hollywood bit man the movie star thing
You know, I was sitting in the back of a Cadillac with sunglasses on my feet up on the seats.
I'm movie star _
_ _ _ Eating _ hamburgers and Pepsi's, you know _ _ _ _ _
So I was getting good and used to the life, you know, and then I _
_ Drafted and shafted and everything else
_ So _ overnight it was all gone and all this change it was like a dream, you know, I thought did it happen that happened
You know, no, no, no Cadillacs.
No, nothing.
You know, it's all shot
So I went into the service and at first the guys just watch me to see what I was gonna do, you know
What's he gonna do?
_ I?
Don't have any trouble except I had a hard time signing at attention.
It's a pinch _ _ _ _
_ Trying to play the rifle _ _ I
Said well put him in a garbage can somewhere man.
He's a freak
so anyway, the guys just watched me at first and when they saw I was doing the same things they were _ everybody got friendly and
_ The guys in the service get awfully lonely.
They call each other mother a lot
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I picked it up, you know, it was only half of it
_ _ _ It didn't go over too well back in Hollywood when I came back and I'd go up to some director say how you doing mother _ _
_ _ _ _ _ what so
you know, I came out of service in
1960 and I made GI Blues and
_ blew Hawaii and _
Girls girls girls, which wasn't a movie.
It was just girls girls girls _ I
did Viva Las Vegas and _ _ _ _ _
_ So what anyway the reason I'm telling you this all this stuff is because I
_ Missed contact with a live live audience.
I got into a routine of making movies and
I was doing like three a year and I wasn't in front of people much
so I really missed the live contact because that was always where it was at for me was in front of people _ and
So the whole idea is to tell you from my side what happened a little bit that's all
_ They _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ told me to clean up the act man _ _