Chords for Jerry Lee Lewis Elvis Assassination Attempt, Graceland Arrest

[Bb] tamer than you were, I think.
You had a more wild image.
Am I correct in thinking that?
Well, _ _ I think Ellis _ was _ _ a little bit more conservative than I was.
_ He hid [N]
himself more,
I would say, from the [Bb] public than I did.
I was more wide open than Ellis.
I never hid
anything.
Whatever I did, I never tried [N] to hold it a secret.
There's one story that I _ read constantly about you, that you went to Graceland, you
had a gun, the sheriff comes, takes you away.
What is the truth behind that story, if there
is any, but what happened? _
[Bb] Ellis, _ in the last days there, he was, _ _ well about 15 times he called me on the phone,
he said, Gurley, I've got to see you, it's very important, I'm very depressed and I want
to talk to you.
He talked to me bad.
_ I just couldn't [N] visualize Ellis Presley being down
and out, depressed [Bb] about anything. _
_ [N] I shunned him off and I didn't go.
One night he called
me down to Vapors [Fm] Club there in Memphis, about a mile from [Bb] his home.
_ It was about 2 o'clock
in the morning _ and to admit the truth about it, I was drinking a lot [Em] of champagne [Fm] that
night.
I don't like champagne.
It made me a little [C] wild.
A little bit.
Yeah, really.
So _ [F] I went out and got my Lincoln car, I said, well I'm going to come down and
see you, so I'll be there in a minute.
So I walked out and Mr.
Fulb, Charlie Fulb from
the home of the Vapors, he said, Jerry, [Bb] just a minute, I have a present for you.
He gave
me [N] this .38
Dillinger pistol, brand new, had never [Bb] been fired.
I said, _ _ [F] _ oh thank you _ [Bb] Mr.
Fulb.
He said, no, put this on your dashboard.
[G] You can seal it in your glove compartment,
if the law [Bb] runs you down, it's against the law.
_ [N] But if you put it on your dashboard and
not seal it, it's not against the law.
Take it home.
I said, okay, well I forgot I was
going [F] by Elvis' house.
So you drove [Bb] by with the gun in your hand.
So I drove by with the gun laying on the dashboard and when I turned into Elvis' house, it was
the front end of that Lincoln, it looked like it was a mile long to me.
And [E] I misjudged
it and I [Db] ran into his gate.
_ And he had hired a new guard, Travis wasn't on the gate at _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] the time, he was on the front end.
He had a new guard on the gate.
So he come running
out there and I hit the gate and it was shaking all over like he was doing a show on there.
And it was kind of funny to me, I don't know.
And [Bbm] he said, well what do you want?
I said,
well Elvis called me and [Ab] he wanted to see me.
He said, who are [F] you?
I said, well just tell
him Jerry leaves here.
[Bb] _ And he saw that gun on the dashboard of the car.
[N] And he ran back
and he called the [Bb] law.
And I'm sitting there, a _ minute later the law about five or six squad
cars surrounded my car.
And I'm sitting there looking at it and I was really loaded.
_ And
I went to put the seat back on the [F] car and I'm still putting the seat back on because
I didn't want it down.
[Bb] I didn't know what I threw this champagne bottle out for.
I thought
it was down and I threw the whole window cleaner out.
So they knew I was loaded.
_ And it was
embarrassing.
And I said, what are you going to do with that gun?
Are you going to shoot
Elvis Presley?
I said, _ well if you're sending [B] Elvis to thank God, I have a [Bb] problem with
that. _
And they said, get out of that car.
_ And that was the deal on that.
And Elvis waited
and waited and waited on me.
[N] Was there ever any competition between the two of you?
Did you ever feel that, that I
mean you were both, [Bb] you know, the _ [F] leaders of a movement, [Bb] almost a revolution?
_ [B] _ [Bb] We considered ourselves both _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
kings of rock and roll, so to speak, in our own way.
He
considered himself the number one artist.
I did too.
And the _ honest thing, [G] I done what
I wanted to do.
Elvis wanted to do [F] the things I did, but he was scared too.
And he tried
to do it and hide it.
[N] And I said, Elvis, you know, you ought to be your own man, be what
you want to do.
Don't let these people tell you what to do.
[Bb] Elvis Presley was a fine person.
_ And I miss him very much.
And he was one of my dear [F] friends.
How about I could depend
on [Bb] him?
Yeah.
[F] When you talk about, you saw [Bb] yourself as king, you both saw yourself as kings.
A question
I was wanting to ask you is, [N] when the history of rock and roll is written, _ where will your [Bb] place be?
_ _ Well, _ _ [N] I was the first artist inducted into the rock and roll hall