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 picked up her bags and walked into the night and silver wings carried her over the sea from the west coast of ireland to west tennessee just to be with her sweetheart oh she left everything from galway to graceland to be with the king and she sang love me tender that s the song she loved best she had elvis i love you tattooed on her breast when they landed in memphis well her heart beat so fast she d dreamed for so long now she d see him at last she knelt at his graveside day after day come closing time they would lead her away just to be with her sweetheart oh she left everything from galway to graceland to be with the king in the thousands they came from the whole human race 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 then 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 i come from galway to graceland to be with the king i come from galway to graceland to be with the king