Chords for Jerry Lee Lewis Elvis Assassination Attempt, Graceland Arrest
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[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
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
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[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
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