Elvis Blues (Owed to Chickenbutt) - Roger Alan Wade

May gypsies guide your footsteps

And angels wind your watch

Never wrestle with my cousin

When he’s drinkin' scotch

Bait your hook with red worms

Skate in empty pools

Remember vanity is the luxury of fools

And be yourself that’s what you’re good at

Let your soul seep through your skin

When you’re stuck inside a double-wide with the Elvis blues my friend

Dream and read and travel every chance you get

Burn to remember

And learn to forget

Walk away from trouble

Whn it ain’t worth dying for

Run back on the double to settl up the score

And be yourself that’s what you’re good at

Let your soul seep through your skin

When you’re stuck inside a double-wide with the Elvis blues darling

Fill your mind with beauty

And kill your fear with truth

Always do your duty and never explain your tattoos

Hell never tell 'em nothin'

And ask 'um even less

Let 'em think you’re bluffin' dress in pink to make 'um guess

And be yourself that’s what you’re good at

Let your soul seep through your skin

When you’re stuck inside a double-wide with the Elvis blues darling

Easy ain’t worth tryin'

Hard ain’t worth tryin' more

The only tear worth cryin' is true love walking out the door

Darlin' when you fall

Fall face first on your ass

Don’t make yourself small for anyone just know this soon will pass

Now go beyond the shadows

Beyond science and design

Through love and truth and music

Out into the sweet divine

And be yourself that’s what you’re good at

Let your soul seep through your skin

When you’re stuck inside a double-wide with the Elvis blues again

And be yourself that’s what you’re good at

It’s all that matters in the end

Well that, and Willie Nelson, and old Mozart now and then