Biography:
The Waterboys is a British celtic band formed in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott. Their songs, largely written by Scott, often contain literary references and are frequently concerned with spirituality. Both the group and its members' solo careers have received much praise from both rock and folk music critics, but The Waterboys as a band has never received the commercial success that some of its members (such as Ian McNabb, leader of The Icicle Works; Trevor Hutchinson, a founding member of Lúnasa; etc) have had independently.
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Other songs:
- Fisherman's Blues
- Fishermans Blues
- The Whole Of The Moon
- A Girl Called Johnny
- A Man Is In Love
- A Pagan Place
- And A Bang On The Ear
- Destinies Entwined
- Didnt We Walk On Water
- Do We Choose Who We Love
- Dont Bang The Drum
- Epiphany On Mott Street
- Everybody Takes A Tumble
- Glastonbury Song
- Has Anybody Here Seen Hank
- Higher In Time
- How Long Will I Love You
- I Can See Elvis
- If I Was Your Boyfriend
- If The Answer Is Yeah
- Kinkys History Lesson
- Long Strange Golden Road
- Love Walks In
- Mad As The Mist And Snow
- Man What A Woman
- Medicine Bow
- Mister Charisma
- Morning Came Too Soon
- Nashville Tennessee
- Nearest Thing To Hip
- New York I Love You
- November Tale
- Payo Payo Chin
- Peace Of Iona
- Politics
- Raggle Taggle Gypsy
- Rags
- Rare Precious And Gone
- Rosalind You Married The Wrong Guy
- Sante Fe
- September 1913
- She Is So Beautiful
- She Tried To Hold Me
- Spring Comes To Spiddal
- Still A Freak
- Strange Boat
- Suffer
- Sweet Dancer
- The Big Music
- The Connemara Fox
- The Crash Of Angels Wings
- The Girl In The Window Chair
- The Hammerhead Bar
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
- The Pan Within
- The Return Of Pan
- Too Close To Heaven
- What Do You Want Me To Do
- When Will We Be Married?
- When Ye Go Away
- White Birds
- Whole Of The Moon
- You In The Sky
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On the verses where the backing vocals sing (doo-wap) sing the doo on top of the last
word of the line.
Intro
riff
e|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
D|------8-11-8--------------8-11-8--------------8-11-8-------||------8-11-8-------|
A|-9-11-------11-9-11~-9-11-------11-9-11~-9-11-------11-9-9~||-9-11-------11-9-9~|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
F# G#m B F#
I can see Elvis... skinny like he was... back in fifty-seven
F# G#m B
razor-quiffed and leather-squeezed... sideburns flickering in the breeze
F#
that blows across the vale of heaven (riff)
F# G#m B F#
I can see Elvis... throned like a king... astride a golden Harley
F# G#m B
smoking a reefer he just rolled... full of acapulco gold
F#
with Hendrix, Dean and Marley (riff)
F# G#m B
I can see Elvis(doo-wap) prowling like a cat(doo-wap)
F#
across a funky bandstand (doo-wap)
F# G#m
Keith Moon behind him banging drums (doo-wap)
B
Charlie Parker all thumbs (doo-wap)
F#
John Lennon doing handstands (doo-wap) (riff)(doo-wap)
Solo on acoustic
F# G#m B F# G#m
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------9---------------------------------------------9~|
G|-----8~--8-11-8----11-8----11-8--8-------8----8-----8----8-11-8---|
D|-8-11-------------------11-----11----8-11-8-11--8-11-8-11---------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#m B F#
e|--------------------9r-------------------------------|
B|-11-9--9-11---11-9------11-9--9-11---9br-------------|
G|-----11-----------11--------11----8-----11-8---------|
D|--------------------------------------------11-8-----|
A|------------------------------------------------11-9-|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
F# G#m B
I can see Elvis... talking philosophy and law
F#
with Joan Of Arc and Plato
F# G#m
quizzing Shakespeare on his plays
B
showing Crazy Horse and Marvin Gaye
F#
how to dance the mashed potato (riff)
F# G#m
I can see Elvis (doo-wap)
B
high and low and high (doo-wap)
F#
and low and high he's hunting (doo-wap)
F# G#m
looking for a special prey (doo-wap)
B
who only just arrived up here today (doo-wap)
F#
break out the bunting (doo-wap) (riff) (doo-wap)
F# G#m (mute) B
I can see Elvis... he's writin' something down
F#
in a litle leather journal
F# G#m
and here are all the words he wrote:
B F# (riff)
"I am gonna slit the throat of that skinflint, the Colonel"
F# G#m (riff) B (riff) F# (riff)
I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis...
F# G#m (riff) B (riff) F# (riff)
I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis... Elvis... Elvis
solo organ + electric guitar over F# G#m B F#
word of the line.
Intro
riff
e|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
D|------8-11-8--------------8-11-8--------------8-11-8-------||------8-11-8-------|
A|-9-11-------11-9-11~-9-11-------11-9-11~-9-11-------11-9-9~||-9-11-------11-9-9~|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------|
F# G#m B F#
I can see Elvis... skinny like he was... back in fifty-seven
F# G#m B
razor-quiffed and leather-squeezed... sideburns flickering in the breeze
F#
that blows across the vale of heaven (riff)
F# G#m B F#
I can see Elvis... throned like a king... astride a golden Harley
F# G#m B
smoking a reefer he just rolled... full of acapulco gold
F#
with Hendrix, Dean and Marley (riff)
F# G#m B
I can see Elvis(doo-wap) prowling like a cat(doo-wap)
F#
across a funky bandstand (doo-wap)
F# G#m
Keith Moon behind him banging drums (doo-wap)
B
Charlie Parker all thumbs (doo-wap)
F#
John Lennon doing handstands (doo-wap) (riff)(doo-wap)
Solo on acoustic
F# G#m B F# G#m
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------9---------------------------------------------9~|
G|-----8~--8-11-8----11-8----11-8--8-------8----8-----8----8-11-8---|
D|-8-11-------------------11-----11----8-11-8-11--8-11-8-11---------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#m B F#
e|--------------------9r-------------------------------|
B|-11-9--9-11---11-9------11-9--9-11---9br-------------|
G|-----11-----------11--------11----8-----11-8---------|
D|--------------------------------------------11-8-----|
A|------------------------------------------------11-9-|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
F# G#m B
I can see Elvis... talking philosophy and law
F#
with Joan Of Arc and Plato
F# G#m
quizzing Shakespeare on his plays
B
showing Crazy Horse and Marvin Gaye
F#
how to dance the mashed potato (riff)
F# G#m
I can see Elvis (doo-wap)
B
high and low and high (doo-wap)
F#
and low and high he's hunting (doo-wap)
F# G#m
looking for a special prey (doo-wap)
B
who only just arrived up here today (doo-wap)
F#
break out the bunting (doo-wap) (riff) (doo-wap)
F# G#m (mute) B
I can see Elvis... he's writin' something down
F#
in a litle leather journal
F# G#m
and here are all the words he wrote:
B F# (riff)
"I am gonna slit the throat of that skinflint, the Colonel"
F# G#m (riff) B (riff) F# (riff)
I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis...
F# G#m (riff) B (riff) F# (riff)
I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis... I can see Elvis... Elvis... Elvis
solo organ + electric guitar over F# G#m B F#
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