G  F#/G   Em  D 
G  F#/G   Em  D 
  
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Life ain't nothin' but a blendin' up all the ups and downs 
                          C 
Damn it, Elvis, don't you know? 
                      D 
You made your mama so proud. 
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Before you ever made that record, before there ever was a Sun 
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Before you ever lost that Cadillac, the Carl Perkins one. 
 
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Mr. Phillips found ol' Johnny Cash when he was high 
                    C 
high before he ever took those pills 
                            D 
and he's still too proud to die. 
 
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Mr. Phillips never said anything behind nobody's back 
 
                             C 
like damn it Elvis, don't he know? 
                   D 
He ain't no Johnny Cash 
 
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Mr. Phillips was the only man that Jerry Lee still would call sir 
                Em                               D 
I just wish Mr. Phillips did all of y'all, bout as good as you deserved 
 
   C                          B/C  
He did just what he said he's gonna do 
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and the money came in sacks. 
       Em         D 
New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac