Please Don't Drag That String Around:Elvis Presley.
B-side of Devil in Disguise which hit #3 on Hot 100
on RCA Records. B-side DNC.
INTRO: D# G# D# A#
#1.
D# F
You like to keep me dangling on a string..
G# D#
cause you know without you, my life don't
mean a thing.
CHORUS:
D# G#
So, I beg you..please don't drag that string
D#
around, oh, no.
A#
Well, what if it should break..oh, tell me,
D# D#7
what would I do then?
G# D#
Keep that string up off the ground, oh, yeah..
A# D#
remember my heart is tied to the other end.
#2.
D# F
Yes, I'm your puppet, my heart is in your hand..
G# D#
one twist on the wrist and I jump to your command.
CHORUS:
D# G#
So, I beg you..please don't drag that string
D#
around, oh, no.
A#
Well, what if it should break..oh, tell me,
D# D#7
what would I do then?
G# D#
Keep that string up off the ground, oh, yeah..
A# D#
remember my heart is tied to the other end.
#3.
D# F G#
I feel inside me, as sure as anything..one day
D#
I'll mean more to you, than a puppet on a string.
CHORUS:
D# G#
So, I beg you..please don't drag that string
D#
around, oh, no.
A#
Well, what if it should break..oh, tell me,
D# D#7
what would I do then?
G# D#
Keep that string up off the ground, oh, yeah..
A# D#
remember my heart is tied to the other end.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.