From Galway to Graceland Songtext

von Richard Thompson

Oh she dressed in the dark
And she whispered Amen
She was pretty in pink
Like a young girl again.
Twenty years married
And she never thought twice.
She snked out of the back door
And walked into the night.
And silver wings carried her over the sea
From the west coast of Ireland to west Tennesee
To be with her sweetheart
She left everything
She went from Galway to Graceland
To be with the king...

She was humming "Suspicion"
That's the song she like best
She had "Elvis,I love you" tatooed on her breast.

When they landed in Memphis,
Her heart beats so fast.
She 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 poor her away.
To be with her sweetheart,
She left everything,
She went from Galway to Graceland
To be with the king...

They came in the thousands
From the whole human race
Just to pay their respect at his last resting place.
Blindly she knealt there,
And she told him her dreams
And she thought that he'd answered
Or that's how it seemed.

And they dragged her away,
It was handcuffs this time.
She said, my dear man, "Are you out of your mind?"
Can't you see that we're married?
See, I'm wearing his ring.

I've come from Galway to Graceland to be with the king.
I've come from Galway to Graceland to be with the king...