Chords for There's A Devil In The Bottle.... T. G. Shepherd's Friendship With Elvis ...

See, I'm a lot like you.
On my nights off, [G] I will go and see one of [Eb] my performer [G] friends of mine that I respect a lot.
I'll go catch [Eb] their shows.
But you [N] know, I go to shows, I don't know if you'll admit it or not, but I go to concerts and shows to not just only hear a performer sing.
I want that performer to communicate.
I want them to talk to me.
I want them to let me know something about them. _ _
[Ab] But then [F] after all, I [Eb] go to shows to make up my mind on whether I like the person on stage.
Not the way they sing, but [Fm] I go to make up my mind on whether I [C] like them as a human being or not.
So, [Ebm] then I go out on my show, I tell them the stories, and this is the first story.
Now, [N] many, many years ago, at the age of 15, I was a runaway.
I left my home in Humboldt, [Eb] Tennessee, and I hitchhiked to Memphis.
And late one night, a 15-year-old kid, me, walked out of the city drinking Memphis, and a guy gets out of the car and walks up to me.
And that guy was up because he [N] _ came back yesterday.
He walked right up to me and said,
_ _ I [F] said,
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ He _ said,
Well, he was 20, he was chiseled, and he had that great look that we remember.
And he said to me,
I said,
_ _ He said,
_ He said,
I said,
_ _ _ He says, _ _ _
We play a little game in there called kill.
It's football on skates.
Would you join me?
I said, [Cm] yes.
We go in and skate for [F] four or five hours.
I know those stories get longer than I think, but I want to hear those [Eb] stories.
After we got to skating [F] four or five hours later, he said,
[Eb] Well, you know, I'm getting kind of hungry.
Let's go up to the house and eat a sandwich.
You want to go?
I said,
I [N] think I _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ [N] _ _ was in a little hungry.
_ [Eb] _
_ I have a friendship that lasted 16 wonderful, beautiful years.
[C] I went to work for RCA Victor through my [Eb] friendship with Elvis.
While working for RCA [N] Victor, my real name was Bill Brower.
Elvis always called me Bill. _
While working at [Abm] RCA, one of [B] my artists, [Eb] the later, encouraged me to become a country singer.
Not always a good [N] way to jinx.
So I became a country singer and lo and behold, I was signed by Motown Records.
Very important.
Wanted to go on a country visit.
And here [B] I am working for RCA [Dm] and recording for [Eb] Motown.
[F] I said, that's a conflict of interest.
[N] I'm going to be on the board shortly.
I [C] said, I had to pick and assume names.
[Ab] And one night I put T.G. [B] Sheppard on a piece of [Eb] paper and I said, that's going to be it.
Elvis loved his [Abm] next song [N] so much because it had gospel on it and shit.
He would listen to [Eb] this song on the radio and he'd [Abm] be singing it around the house or [Ab] on the racquetball court
or we'd [D] watch movies, he'd [Ab] break into the song and I'd go, oh [N] my God, I look like I'm singing my song.
_ [Ab] Well, late one night, I walk in the [N] back door of the race.
And he was sitting there in the jungle room with his feet popped up on the carpet table.
I get to the back door and he said, Bill?
I said, yes sir.
He said, you know, you moved the pool by me.
I said, what do you mean?
He said, you know, you could have told me, Bill, that you were that T.G. Sheppard guy singing that song on the radio.
_ I said, Elvis, I couldn't tell you.
I was afraid I'd lose my job at RCA.
He said, you must be nuts.
I am RCA. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _
[C] [G] I come home with it.
_ [C] With a shoe, a few years. _
[Cm] Stumble in the back door, [C] blind [G] as I am.
She's there, Bill, [C] cold. _ _
[Cm] And she's crying, _ [C] cause I'm breaking [G] up.
And she knows, that [C] I'm in _ [G] this world, _ inside [D] my skin. _
[G] She's a little girl, she's a little girl, [C] she's a little girl. _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ [E] _ [D] _ [C] _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ [C] [G] I bought a chiropractor.
[C] She helps me with my breathing.
[Cm] _ Yes, she stays all day [C] long, cause she really [G] knows, that I'm broken, broken.
I find [C] my reason, _ by [Cm] asking me to be your man.
[C] And we will now live [G] a moment of gratitude _
That [C] has loved you in [G] this world
And it [D] shines bright in the evening
[G] And in the _ morning
[C] And in the night
_ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ And in [C] the morning
And [G] _ _ [D] _
[G] in the evening
_ And [C] it's killing her, _ [Cm] what she's been done
Go [G] to church with that guy, [C] it's a little god-forsaken
[G] [C] And [G] _ in the _ morning
[C] And _ [Eb] [G] in the night
_ [D] And in the evening
And in the [G] day _
And [C] in the morning
_ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ And in the day
And in [C] the _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [E] _ [D] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ [C]
night
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _