Galway To Graceland

© Richard Thompson

A love story with a difference...

Listen to MP3 extract (added Dec 2006)

Jimmy and Val

Oh she dressed in the dark and she whispered Amen
She was pretty in pink like a young girl again
Twenty years married but she never thought twice
She sneaked out the door and walked into the night

And, silver wings carried her over the sea
From the west coast of Ireland to west Tennessee
To be with her sweetheart, oh she left everything
From Galway to Graceland to be with the king

She was humming suspicion that's the song she liked best
She had Elvis I love you tattooed on her breast
When they landed in Memphis well her heart beat so fast
She had dreamed for so long, now she'd see him at last

She was down by his graveside day after day
Come closing time they would pull her away
To be with her sweetheart, oh she left everything
From Galway to Graceland to be with the king

Oh they came in their thousands from the whole human race
To pay their respects at his last resting place
Ah but blindly she knelt there and she told him her dreams
And she thought that he answered, or that's how it seemed

They dragged her away it was handcuffs this time
She said my good man are you out of your mind
Don't you know that we're married, see I'm wearing his ring
I've come from Galway to Graceland to be with the king

From Galway to Graceland to be with the king

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