Текст песни Special Needs Kids Love Elvis - TurtleFrogMan

I was in this awful rock and roll ensemble when I was much younger
And I'm ashamed to say I wrote the songs and that I was the leader of the band
We were desperate for gigs, cause we were out of weed and on the verge of hunger
We'd have done a gig for Nazis we were after any gig that we could land

My uncle was the leader of the union and a local jazz musician
And one day he said boys I got a paying gig most bands would kill to get
And I'll arrange for you to have this paying gig but there's just one minor condition
You must agree to play an Elvis Presley song before the end of your first set

So All we had to do was learn an Elvis Presley song

They're only three or four chords and a couple minutes long
The gig was for special needs children
And so there was no risk in playing it wrong
So All we had to do was learn an Elvis Presley song

We couldn't play "Heartbreak Hotel" and then we butchered good ol "love me tender"
We tried our best at Don't be Cruel, it sounded really awful I must say
We murdered poor old "houndog" and just couldn't figure out "return to sender"
And of course we had procrastinated and the gig was just a day away

And so I came up with this brilliant plan
To give these special needs kids what they wanted
I'd announce an Elvis Presley song and then instead our own song would we play
I know it was dishonest and to this day by the guilt of it I'm haunted
But I figured that these special needs kids wouldn't know the difference anyway

So all we had to do was learn an Elvis Presley song
They're only three or four chords and a couple minutes long
The gig was for special needs children
And so there was no risk in playing it wrong
So All we had to do was learn an Elvis Presley song

We were on stage doing mike checks and string
Tuning on the evening of the big show
And these kids began to dance around
They must have thought our tuning sounded great
If they're dancing to your sound check
That's a promising sign for how well would the gig go
We finished tuning our guitars and started playing just about an hour late

I started the show like Ted Nugent yelling
"Which of you kids is ready to fuckin rock?"
My cursing was not well received
The parents attending were clearly disgusted
So I thought, we'd better play Elvis, and yelled "here's one by Elvis"
But much to their shock
We played some song that we wrote and the parents were onto my plan
We were busted

Man, All we had to do was learn an Elvis Presley song
They're only three or four chords and a couple minutes long
My uncle found out so we didn't get paid
And couldn't buy weed for our bong
All we had to do was learn an Elvis Presley song