Oh she dressed in the dark and she whispered amen She was pretty in pink like a young girl again Twenty years married and she never thought twice She slipped out of the back door and into the night And silver wings carried her over the sea From the west coast of Ireland to West Tennessee To be with her sweetheart, she'd left everything She went fom Galway to Graceland to be with the king She was humming Suspicion, the song she liked best She had Elvis I Love You tattooed on her breast When they landed in Memphis, her heart beat so fast She had dreamed for so long, now she'd see him at last And she knelt by his graveside day after day
Come closing time they would pull her away To be with her sweetheart, she'd left everything She went from Galway to Graceland to be with the king In there thousands they came, from the whole human race Just To pay their respects at his last resting place But blindly she knelt there and she told him her dreams And she thought that he answered, well that's how it seemed When they dragged her away it was handcuffs this time She said my dear man are you out of your mind. Don't you know that we're married? See, I'm wearing his ring. Ive come From Galway to Graceland to be with the king. I come From Galway to Graceland to be with the king