Elvis, Levi's and Veils

[couchgrouch]

Elvis, Levi's and VeilsMama was a proper schoolgirltill on Ed Sullivan's showshe saw a duck-tailed rebelthe hepcat from Tupeloshe gave up her plaid skirtsand thought she was hot stuffgreaser gangs, pedal pushersand Levi's with rolled up cuffscos the man who would be kingproved anyone could do anythingwin or lose, it's for us to choosehe had it all, how could he fallsome give up and some will singthen he went in the Armythings just weren't the samemama married my dadand the music died in a planeit seemed that time flew bywith her youth on its wingsbut she'd rock me to sleepsinging Love Me Tenderwearing those same faded jeanscos the man who would be kingproved anyone could do anythingwin or lose, it's for us to choosehe had it all, how could he fallsome give up and some will singthen times changed quickly for our nationfirst there was JFK then the British invasionDad was barely in his twentieswhen he went to Vietnamthey made a man of her boythen a ghost of her manafter the funeralshe'd never say how the old days werecos when she looked back at themsadness looked back at herbut if Don't Be Cruelcame on the radioit seemed like those years,suddenly appearedand away she'd gocos the man who would be kingproved anyone could do anythingwin or lose, it's for us to choosehe had it all, how could he fallsome give up and some will singthen in '77Cronkite came on the newswhen he said Elvis diedpart of her died, tooshe never said a wordbut I knew she was hurtshe went up to her roomthen locked herself inwearing a veil of tearslistened again and againcos the man who would be kingproved anyone could do anythingwin or lose, it's for us to choosehe had it all, how could he fallsome give up and some will sing(c)2004 Robert George