Chords for Mac Davis Tells a Story on Elvis

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Well, you had a kind of an interesting story about going to the movies with Elvis.
_ _ Tell us about that.
I love that story.
Well, I don't know if it's the same story that I'm going to tell, but yeah, I was playing
a concert in _ West Memphis, a small college there, West Memphis, across the Arkansas line.
I get a phone call.
[F] My road manager says, you know, Elvis's guy called up and wants you to come see a movie
with him after the show tonight.
They rented the Memphian Theater.
And I'm like, oh my God, oh really, man?
Because I'd heard all my life about these theater things, and he would rent the whole
theater and free popcorn and beer.
And I was just like, wow, I can't believe it.
It's Elvis.
I'm going to sit with him.
And I had met him before that, but I'd never really got to go out and boogie with Elvis.
I mean, this is cool.
So I showed up there and got me some popcorn and a beer and walked in.
I was a little late.
The thing was just getting started.
I walked down the aisle and I see Elvis sitting down there, just him and Linda Thompson, his young girlfriend. _
_ And I just walked straight down to that row and I just stepped over the guy at the end
of the thing and said, excuse me.
And I just walked down, plopped down next to Linda Thompson and Elvis is on the other side.
And he had this silver tray that was made especially to hook over the seat in front
of him and set out.
Beautiful, hand-carved silver tray.
And he had his popcorn and his beer sitting on it.
I thought, man, this is cool.
And I sat there and watched the movie with him.
And it was the first time I'd been able to really sit and talk to him because the rest
of the time you'd be around him and the Memphis Mafia was just surrounding him.
And it was really intimidating because every word you'd, they'd hang on every word and
you'd be afraid you'd say the wrong thing or something.
_ _ And they really didn't want you to get that close to Elvis, I guess, to be part of that inner circle.
But I felt like part of the inner circle.
And we laughed and he was fun to be around and we laughed at the movie.
It was kind of a silly movie anyway and we made fun of it.
It was just really comfortable.
I was so happy to be there.
I felt like such an important guy.
I got up just before the movie was over to go to the men's room.
_ And I'm standing there and a guy comes walking in, the kid that I'd stepped over at the _ end
of the row.
And he said, Mr.
Davis, you're not supposed to sit on the same row as Elvis.
_ And I said, excuse me?
He said, you're not supposed to sit on the same row.
Red West and Sonny West don't even sit.
You notice they sit two rows back.
And I said, did Elvis tell you to come in here and tell me?
And he said, no, sir.
He said, that's just the rule.
And I'm supposed to tell you that.
And I didn't want to embarrass you.
I said, you've embarrassed me.
You have totally insulted me.
And I got really, really incensed about the whole thing.
It just irritated me.
When I walked back out of the place while the movie was over and Elvis was standing
out there and _ he says, what's the matter?
He could tell I was mad.
I just want somebody to tell me how to get back to my hotel from here because I don't know.
And I had a rental car. _
_ And he said, well, what's the matter, man?
And I can't imitate Elvis.
I wish I could.
What's the matter, man?
That's pretty good.
There you go.
I said, I just I don't need to tell you.
I just said, you know, you just don't understand what goes on around you.
I don't think you have any idea what goes on around you when you're not looking.
He's, what do you mean, man?
I said, I was just told that I couldn't sit on the same row with you, that I'd
made it made me feel like a fool.
That's what he said.
Oh, man, who told you that, man?
I said, it doesn't matter who told me.
Somebody told me.
And, you know, and I just, you know, it just makes me feel bad.
And he says, man, tell me who did it.
I said, no, I'm not going to tell you who did it.
[G] He said, well, what can I do to make it better, man?
I said, I don't know.
Give me your home number.
_ _ _ He says, uh, _ Charlie Hodge, _ give him back my home number.
And Charlie says, what, what number?
What number?
He says, my home number.
The one I answered the house.
I don't know what that is.
What is it?
_ _ Charlie, Charlie says, I can't, you don't want it.
I can't do that.
He said, give him my home number.
So Charlie turns to Joe Esposito, who is the boss.
And he said, Elvis wants me to give him the home number to help.
And Joe says, well, then give it to him.
So he writes it down on a matchbook cover and gave it to him.
I said, I'll probably never call it, but at least I feel better about having
come in here and made a fool of myself.
He said, well, I'm sorry, man.
And I said, okay, whatever.
I said, I'll probably never call it.
And I never did never called him at home.
And over the years, I, you know, I've been, I went to his home a few times
and was there and, uh, uh, met up with him in the dressing room a few times.
And in his suite, the Elvis suite, which was fantastic.
Uh, over the top, nothing like red flocked wallpaper, black toilet
fixtures, nothing like that.
And, [G#] uh, I have that in my house.
[N] _ Everything was all the toilet, you know, the toilet bowl in the sink and all
was black marble and red and black flocked wallpaper.
So in that day, man, I thought it was so cool.
It's pretty gauche [G] actually.
[C#] Well, but anyway, that's, that was the deal.
And I, I still, I kept his phone number in my phone book for years after he passed
away, just to have it there.
Yeah.
Hey, we, we got to take a break.
We're here with Mac Davis.
We got a lot more great stories and some more music.
So stick around.
You're listening to the music row show.
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