LYRICS: King Creole

Album:

King Creole, Volume 1

Lyrics / Music:

Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller, 1957

Catalog number:

EPA 4319

Recording date:

January 23, 1958

Release date:

June 15, 1958

Observation:

- Part of the soundtrack of the film "King Creole" (1958)

- Re-released in "King Creole" (1958)

- It has a first version (recorded on January 15, 1958) that was discarded and released only in 1990 in "Essential Elvis, Volume 3" 

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LYRICS

There's a man in New Orleans who plays rock and roll

He's a guitar man with a great big soul

He lays down a beat like a ton of coal

He goes by the name of King Creole

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Jumping like a catfish on a pole, yeah

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Hip-shaking King Creole

When the king starts to do it, it's as good as done

He holds his guitar like a tommy gun

He starts to growl from way down in his throat

He bends a string and that's all she wrote

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Jumping like a catfish on a pole, yeah

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Hip-shaking King Creole

Well, he sings a song about a crawdad hole

He sings a song about a jelly roll

He sings a song about a-pork and greens

He sings some blues about New Orleans

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Jumping like a catfish on a pole yeah

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Hip-shaking King Creole

He plays something evil, then he plays something sweet

No matter how he plays, you gotta get up on your feet

When he gets a rocking fever, baby, heaven sakes

He don't stop playing 'til his guitar breaks

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Jumping like a catfish on a pole, yeah

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Hip-shaking King Creole

You know he's gone, gone, gone

Hip-shaking King Creole