There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis Lyrics
Kirsty Maccoll
Lyrics
(Kirsty MacColl/Philip Rambow)
Oh darling why d'you talk so fast
Another evening just flew past tonight
And now the daybreak's coming in
And I can't win and it ain't right
You tell me all you've done and seen
And all the places you have been without me
Well I don't really want to know
But I'll stay quiet and then I'll go
And you won't have no cause to think about me
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you'd be true
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you
Oh darling you're so popular
You were the best thing new in Hicksville
With your mohair suits and foreign shoes
Lou says you changed your pickup for a Seville
And now I'm lying here alone
'Cause you're out there on the phone to some star in New York
I can hear you laughing now
And I can't help feeling that somehow
You don't mean anything you say at all
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you'd be true
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you'd be true
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you
I said he's a liar and I'm not sure about you
I said he's a liar and I'm not sure about you
I said he's a liar and I'm not sure about you
Song & Lyrics Facts
Kirsty MacColl's "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" is an upbeat, tongue-in-cheek song that was released in 1981 as part of her debut album Desperate Character. The genre of the track is pop and it was written by Kirsty MacColl and Steve Lillywhite.
It features MacColl on vocals and guitar, with the band members including Simon Edwards (bass), Martin Ditcham (drums) and Mark E. Nevin (guitar). The lyrics of this humorous ode to small town life tell the story of a local character who claims to be Elvis Presley, although no one believes him. In addition to its release on Desperate Character, the single also featured on MacColl’s compilation albums Galore (1995) and From Croydon to Cuba (2000). Despite never charting, “There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis” has become one of MacColl’s most beloved songs.