Chords for JERRY LEE LEWIS - TALKS ABOUT ELVIS AND HIMSELF - 1986
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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 [C] hid himself more,
I would say, from the public.
[Fm] I was [Bb] more wide open than Ellis.
I never hid anything.
Whatever
I did, I never tried to hold it a secret.
There's one [A] story that I read [B] constantly about you, that you went to [Bb] Graceland, you
had a gun, the sheriff comes, takes you away.
What is the [Gb] truth behind that story, if there
is any, but what happened?
Ellis, in the last days there, he was, well about 15 times he called me on the phone,
you know, and he said, Gerald, I got to see you, [F] it's very important, [Bb] I'm very depressed
and I want to talk to you, I need to talk to you bad.
I just couldn't visualize [Ab] Ellis
Presley being down and [Bb] out of the press about anything.
I [N] shunned him off and I didn't go.
One night he called me down to the Vapors [A] 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 [Fm] of champagne that night.
I don't like champagne.
[E] It made me a little wild, you know.
A [Db] little bit.
A little bit.
Yeah, really.
And so, [F] to say the least, I went out and got my Lincoln car, you know,
and I said, well I'm going to come down and see you, son, I'll be [Bb] there in a minute, you
know.
So I walked outside and Mr.
Fulb, Charlie Fulb, my owner of the Vapors, he said, Jerry,
just a minute, I have a present for you.
And he gave me this .38
Dillinger pistol, brand
new, had never been fired.
I [F] still have it, it never has been fired.
And I said, well
thank you, Mr.
Fulb, and I went to put it in [Bb] my glove compartment, and he said, no,
put this on the dashboard.
If you conceal it in your glove compartment, the law will
run you down just against the law.
But if you put it on your dashboard and not conceal
it, it's not against the law.
Take it home.
I said, okay, well I forgot I was going by Elvis' house.
So you drove by with the gun in your hand.
So I drove by with the gun, I was living on the dashboard, and I went, I turned into Elvis'
house, it was a plenty of that Lincoln, it looked like it was a mile long to me.
[Gb] And
I misjudged it, and I ran into [Em] his gate.
And he had hired a new guard, [Bb] Travis wasn't on
the gate.
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 the place like he was doing a show on there.
And it
was kind of funny to me, I don't know.
And [N] he said, well what do you want?
I said, well
Elvis called me and wanted to see me.
He said, who are you?
I said, well just tell him Jerry
Lee's here.
[C] And he saw that gun on the [F] dashboard of the car, and he ran back and he called
the law.
[Bb]
So I'm sitting there, you know, and a minute later the law about five or six squad
cars surrounded my car, you know.
I'm looking at them, and I was really loaded.
And I went
to put the seat back on [F] the car, and I stood putting the seat back on, putting the window
down.
I didn't know it, I threw the [Bb] champagne bottle out, the window, and 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 [N] going to do with that gun?
Are you going to shoot
Elvis Presley?
I said, well if you're silly enough to think that, that's a problem with
that car.
And I said, get out of that car, though.
That was the deal on that.
And [Bb] I was
waiting, waiting, waiting on that.
Was there ever any competition between the two of you?
Did you ever feel that, that, I mean, you're both, you know, the leaders of a movement,
almost a revolution?
We considered ourselves both kings of rock and roll, so to speak.
You know, he considered himself the number one artist, I did too.
And the honest thing,
I [B] done what I wanted to do.
Elvis wanted [F] to do the things I did, but he was scared too.
And he tried to do it and hide it.
And so I said, Elvis, [Eb] you know, you ought to be your
own man, do [Bb] what you want to do.
Don't let these people tell you what to do.
But Elvis
Presley was a fine person.
And I miss him very much, and he was one of my dear friends.
Some of that I can depend on, yeah.
When you talk about, you saw yourself as kings,
you both saw yourself as kings, a question I was wanting to ask you is, [B] when the history
of rock and roll is written, where will [Bb] your place be?
Well, I [F] was the first
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 [C] hid himself more,
I would say, from the public.
[Fm] I was [Bb] more wide open than Ellis.
I never hid anything.
Whatever
I did, I never tried to hold it a secret.
There's one [A] story that I read [B] constantly about you, that you went to [Bb] Graceland, you
had a gun, the sheriff comes, takes you away.
What is the [Gb] truth behind that story, if there
is any, but what happened?
Ellis, in the last days there, he was, well about 15 times he called me on the phone,
you know, and he said, Gerald, I got to see you, [F] it's very important, [Bb] I'm very depressed
and I want to talk to you, I need to talk to you bad.
I just couldn't visualize [Ab] Ellis
Presley being down and [Bb] out of the press about anything.
I [N] shunned him off and I didn't go.
One night he called me down to the Vapors [A] 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 [Fm] of champagne that night.
I don't like champagne.
[E] It made me a little wild, you know.
A [Db] little bit.
A little bit.
Yeah, really.
And so, [F] to say the least, I went out and got my Lincoln car, you know,
and I said, well I'm going to come down and see you, son, I'll be [Bb] there in a minute, you
know.
So I walked outside and Mr.
Fulb, Charlie Fulb, my owner of the Vapors, he said, Jerry,
just a minute, I have a present for you.
And he gave me this .38
Dillinger pistol, brand
new, had never been fired.
I [F] still have it, it never has been fired.
And I said, well
thank you, Mr.
Fulb, and I went to put it in [Bb] my glove compartment, and he said, no,
put this on the dashboard.
If you conceal it in your glove compartment, the law will
run you down just against the law.
But if you put it on your dashboard and not conceal
it, it's not against the law.
Take it home.
I said, okay, well I forgot I was going by Elvis' house.
So you drove by with the gun in your hand.
So I drove by with the gun, I was living on the dashboard, and I went, I turned into Elvis'
house, it was a plenty of that Lincoln, it looked like it was a mile long to me.
[Gb] And
I misjudged it, and I ran into [Em] his gate.
And he had hired a new guard, [Bb] Travis wasn't on
the gate.
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 the place like he was doing a show on there.
And it
was kind of funny to me, I don't know.
And [N] he said, well what do you want?
I said, well
Elvis called me and wanted to see me.
He said, who are you?
I said, well just tell him Jerry
Lee's here.
[C] And he saw that gun on the [F] dashboard of the car, and he ran back and he called
the law.
[Bb]
So I'm sitting there, you know, and a minute later the law about five or six squad
cars surrounded my car, you know.
I'm looking at them, and I was really loaded.
And I went
to put the seat back on [F] the car, and I stood putting the seat back on, putting the window
down.
I didn't know it, I threw the [Bb] champagne bottle out, the window, and 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 [N] going to do with that gun?
Are you going to shoot
Elvis Presley?
I said, well if you're silly enough to think that, that's a problem with
that car.
And I said, get out of that car, though.
That was the deal on that.
And [Bb] I was
waiting, waiting, waiting on that.
Was there ever any competition between the two of you?
Did you ever feel that, that, I mean, you're both, you know, the leaders of a movement,
almost a revolution?
We considered ourselves both kings of rock and roll, so to speak.
You know, he considered himself the number one artist, I did too.
And the honest thing,
I [B] done what I wanted to do.
Elvis wanted [F] to do the things I did, but he was scared too.
And he tried to do it and hide it.
And so I said, Elvis, [Eb] you know, you ought to be your
own man, do [Bb] what you want to do.
Don't let these people tell you what to do.
But Elvis
Presley was a fine person.
And I miss him very much, and he was one of my dear friends.
Some of that I can depend on, yeah.
When you talk about, you saw yourself as kings,
you both saw yourself as kings, a question I was wanting to ask you is, [B] when the history
of rock and roll is written, where will [Bb] your place be?
Well, I [F] was the first
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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 [C] hid himself more,
I would say, from the public.
[Fm] I was [Bb] more wide open than Ellis.
I never hid anything.
Whatever
I did, I never tried to hold it a secret.
There's one [A] story that I read [B] constantly about you, that you went to [Bb] Graceland, you
had a gun, the sheriff comes, takes you away.
What is the [Gb] truth behind that story, if there
is any, but what happened? _
Ellis, in the last days there, he was, well about 15 times he called me on the phone,
you know, and he said, Gerald, I got to see you, [F] it's very important, [Bb] I'm very depressed
and I want to talk to you, I need to talk to you bad.
I just couldn't visualize [Ab] Ellis
Presley being down and [Bb] out of the press about anything.
I [N] shunned him off and I didn't go.
One night he called me down to the Vapors [A] 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 [Fm] of champagne that night.
I don't like champagne.
[E] It made me a little wild, you know.
A [Db] little bit.
A little bit.
Yeah, really.
And so, [F] to say the least, I went out and got my Lincoln car, you know,
and I said, well I'm going to come down and see you, son, I'll be [Bb] there in a minute, you
know.
So I walked outside and Mr.
Fulb, Charlie Fulb, my owner of the Vapors, he said, Jerry,
just a minute, I have a present for you.
And he gave me this .38
Dillinger pistol, brand
new, had never been fired.
I [F] still have it, it never has been fired.
And I said, well
thank you, Mr.
Fulb, and I went to put it in [Bb] my glove compartment, and he said, no,
put this on the dashboard.
If you conceal it in your glove compartment, the law will
run you down just against the law.
But if you put it on your dashboard and not conceal
it, it's not against the law.
Take it home.
I said, okay, well I forgot I was going by Elvis' house.
So you drove by with the gun in your hand.
So I drove by with the gun, I was living on the dashboard, and I went, I turned into Elvis'
house, it was a plenty of that Lincoln, it looked like it was a mile long to me.
[Gb] And
I misjudged it, and I ran into [Em] his gate.
And he had hired a new guard, [Bb] Travis wasn't on
the gate. _ _ _
_ _ 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 the place like he was doing a show on there.
And it
was kind of funny to me, I don't know.
And [N] he said, well what do you want?
I said, well
Elvis called me and wanted to see me.
He said, who are you?
I said, well just tell him Jerry
Lee's here.
[C] And he saw that gun on the [F] dashboard of the car, and he ran back and he called
the law.
[Bb]
So I'm sitting there, you know, and a minute later the law about five or six squad
cars surrounded my car, you know.
I'm looking at them, and I was really loaded.
And I went
to put the seat back on [F] the car, and I stood putting the seat back on, putting the window
down.
I didn't know it, I threw the [Bb] champagne bottle out, the window, and 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 [N] going to do with that gun?
Are you going to shoot
Elvis Presley?
I said, well if you're silly enough to think that, that's a problem with
that car.
And I said, get out of that car, though.
That was the deal on that.
And [Bb] I was
waiting, waiting, waiting on that.
Was there ever any competition between the two of you?
Did you ever feel that, that, I mean, you're both, you know, the leaders of a movement,
almost a revolution?
We considered ourselves both kings _ _ of rock and roll, so to speak.
You know, he considered himself the number one artist, I did too.
And the honest thing,
I [B] done what I wanted to do.
Elvis wanted [F] to do the things I did, but he was scared too.
And he tried to do it and hide it.
And so I said, Elvis, [Eb] you know, you ought to be your
own man, do [Bb] what you want to do.
Don't let these people tell you what to do.
But Elvis
Presley was a fine person.
And I miss him very much, and he was one of my dear friends.
Some of that I can depend on, yeah.
When you talk about, you saw yourself as kings,
you both saw yourself as kings, a question I was wanting to ask you is, [B] when the history
of rock and roll is written, where will [Bb] your place be?
_ _ _ Well, I [F] was the first
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 [C] hid himself more,
I would say, from the public.
[Fm] I was [Bb] more wide open than Ellis.
I never hid anything.
Whatever
I did, I never tried to hold it a secret.
There's one [A] story that I read [B] constantly about you, that you went to [Bb] Graceland, you
had a gun, the sheriff comes, takes you away.
What is the [Gb] truth behind that story, if there
is any, but what happened? _
Ellis, in the last days there, he was, well about 15 times he called me on the phone,
you know, and he said, Gerald, I got to see you, [F] it's very important, [Bb] I'm very depressed
and I want to talk to you, I need to talk to you bad.
I just couldn't visualize [Ab] Ellis
Presley being down and [Bb] out of the press about anything.
I [N] shunned him off and I didn't go.
One night he called me down to the Vapors [A] 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 [Fm] of champagne that night.
I don't like champagne.
[E] It made me a little wild, you know.
A [Db] little bit.
A little bit.
Yeah, really.
And so, [F] to say the least, I went out and got my Lincoln car, you know,
and I said, well I'm going to come down and see you, son, I'll be [Bb] there in a minute, you
know.
So I walked outside and Mr.
Fulb, Charlie Fulb, my owner of the Vapors, he said, Jerry,
just a minute, I have a present for you.
And he gave me this .38
Dillinger pistol, brand
new, had never been fired.
I [F] still have it, it never has been fired.
And I said, well
thank you, Mr.
Fulb, and I went to put it in [Bb] my glove compartment, and he said, no,
put this on the dashboard.
If you conceal it in your glove compartment, the law will
run you down just against the law.
But if you put it on your dashboard and not conceal
it, it's not against the law.
Take it home.
I said, okay, well I forgot I was going by Elvis' house.
So you drove by with the gun in your hand.
So I drove by with the gun, I was living on the dashboard, and I went, I turned into Elvis'
house, it was a plenty of that Lincoln, it looked like it was a mile long to me.
[Gb] And
I misjudged it, and I ran into [Em] his gate.
And he had hired a new guard, [Bb] Travis wasn't on
the gate. _ _ _
_ _ 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 the place like he was doing a show on there.
And it
was kind of funny to me, I don't know.
And [N] he said, well what do you want?
I said, well
Elvis called me and wanted to see me.
He said, who are you?
I said, well just tell him Jerry
Lee's here.
[C] And he saw that gun on the [F] dashboard of the car, and he ran back and he called
the law.
[Bb]
So I'm sitting there, you know, and a minute later the law about five or six squad
cars surrounded my car, you know.
I'm looking at them, and I was really loaded.
And I went
to put the seat back on [F] the car, and I stood putting the seat back on, putting the window
down.
I didn't know it, I threw the [Bb] champagne bottle out, the window, and 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 [N] going to do with that gun?
Are you going to shoot
Elvis Presley?
I said, well if you're silly enough to think that, that's a problem with
that car.
And I said, get out of that car, though.
That was the deal on that.
And [Bb] I was
waiting, waiting, waiting on that.
Was there ever any competition between the two of you?
Did you ever feel that, that, I mean, you're both, you know, the leaders of a movement,
almost a revolution?
We considered ourselves both kings _ _ of rock and roll, so to speak.
You know, he considered himself the number one artist, I did too.
And the honest thing,
I [B] done what I wanted to do.
Elvis wanted [F] to do the things I did, but he was scared too.
And he tried to do it and hide it.
And so I said, Elvis, [Eb] you know, you ought to be your
own man, do [Bb] what you want to do.
Don't let these people tell you what to do.
But Elvis
Presley was a fine person.
And I miss him very much, and he was one of my dear friends.
Some of that I can depend on, yeah.
When you talk about, you saw yourself as kings,
you both saw yourself as kings, a question I was wanting to ask you is, [B] when the history
of rock and roll is written, where will [Bb] your place be?
_ _ _ Well, I [F] was the first