LYRICS: Flip, Flop and Fly

Album:

This is Elvis

Lyrics / Music:

Chuck Calhoun / Lou Willie Turner, 1955

Catalog number:

CPL2 4031

Recording date:

January 28,1956

Release date:

April 4, 1981

Observation:

- Although there's no known live version, Elvis often included a few lines of it at the end of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" in the 1950s

- The best-known version of the period is that of January 28, 1956, on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show

- Elvis used it in a medley of hits between 1973 and 1974

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LYRICS

Now when I get the blues, I get me a rockin' chair

When I get the blues, I get me a rockin' chair

Well, if the blues overtake me

Gonna rock right away from here

Now when I get lonesome, I jump on the telephone

When I get lonesome, I jump on the telephone

I call my baby

Tell her I'm on my way back home

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Don't ever leave me

Don't ever say goodbye

Give me one more kiss, hold it a long long time

Give me one more kiss, hold it a long long time

Now love me, baby

Till the feelin' hits my head like wine

Here comes my baby, flashin' her new gold tooth

Here comes my baby, flashin' her new gold tooth

Well, she's so small

She can mambo in a pay phone booth

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now, don't ever leave me

Don't ever say goodbye

I'm like a mississippi bullfrog, sittin' on a hollow stump

I'm like a mississippi bullfrog, sittin' on a hollow stump

I got so many women

I don't know which way to jump

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Don't ever leave me

Don't ever say goodbye, oh my!