Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[Wanda June Hill]

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W: So you've been trapped in doors huh-you could run out to the exercise room or barn...is it too cold?
E: Had the flu-can't get chilled 'n wet damn it. Too cold at night. Do excercise though, got to or else won't have the enrgy 'um gonna need later on...(Coughing again) Excuse me...damn...(Let's the phone away, still can hear him, coughing and cursing.)
W: Better now?
E: yeah, sprayed my throat 'gin...says ever 4 to 6 hours ...f...sh...., awww...damn it! (Coughing, sounds like he maybe spit somewhere, I hope not on the floor of his room-like he did on stage! Of course I don't think he'd do that at home.) What ya spossed to do in between?
W: Try your Apricot brandy remedy-remenber it?
E: Yeah-got some downstairs guess better get it up here 'n use it. Probably don't have pineapple juice though-gotta have that or it don't work as well.
W: It does work-at least when I tried it-better than the stuff at the drugstore for sure!
E: Told you it would, grandma told me long time ago an' been doin' it when I can. Can't drink though-least not spossed to...
W: You do now and then...
E: (Laughs) Now an' then don't hurt 'n sometimes helps-yeah. Been a while though- You know I like Tequila and good Scotch whiskey some times. Even some martini's but that's not my thing really.
W: Do you drink beer? Don't think I've ever seen a picture of you with beer in your hand or even heard about it.
E: Gawd-somethin' they missed? Or I's just careful-huh? Yeah-like dark beer but 'um not a beer drinker really-rather drink sodas than beer. Seen too many guys fallin' down drunk jus' on too many beers. Once you worked 'round joints like that, it don't seem near as excitin' or nothin'. Like to know what I'm, doin' ya know, un drunks don't always have an idea what kind of fool made of themselves. An' get so they don't care anyway.
W: So you've been "falllin' down drunk"?
E: No...not really...just silly enough to make a fool of my self a time or two...usually jus' havin' fun with a friend is all...nothin' out in public or anything.
W: So what do you do-"making a fool" of yourself?
E: You don't want to know. (Snickers)
W: Really, that bad, huh?
E: (Laughs) Ain't gonna tell you.
W: Really...oh boy-it is bad! Uh-huh, I knew it, Elvis is a terrible drunk!
E: Naw not really...just silly is all. Embarrasing myself, usually jus' with friends.
W: Okay...
E: Yea...
W: I've heard stories...
E: Like what? Who?
W: you don't need to know.
E: (Silence)
W: Is that rain turning to sleet?
E: What did you hear?
W: It sounds like sleet hitting the window there.
E: That's my...hackles risin'...asked you a question.
W: Hackles...? What's that?
E: You know damn what!
W: Yeah...so...you get romantic...and beg?
E: What! No...who said that?
W: Rumors...several people and a few who should know-they were there.
E: Who damn it? One of the guys? Girls? Who?
W: Both. I heard it in the ladies powder room in Vegas a couple of years ago-that you were drunk upstairs after the shows and on your knees begging one of the Sweets to put you to bed.
E: Oh sh.... Gawd! ....told you I get silly. (Laughs) Thought it was somethin' else, man.
W: Oh there's more?
E: (Laughs) Yeah...'un you don't need to know-I'm a silly ass, so don't drink.
W: At least you don't get obnoxious and mean...huh?
E: Jus' the opposite -though havent been drunk that often...usually just get silly 'n laugh like some freakin' fool! They filmed me once-couldn't hardly believe it was me-but cameras don't lie-damn it! Gawd...that's when I-I was-was...eh...yeah, on my knees an' sittin' up like a dog. Jus' wanted her to put me to bed-what's wrong with that? (Laughs)
W: Whose bed-hers or yours?
E: Wouldn't of mattered...'sides was too damn drunk for doin' anythin' but talkin' 'bout it! She did, she took me to my room an' put me to bed-clothes an all. So, don't get no ideas; was out like a f....in' light she said. My heart was broken...jus' needed some lovin' is all...an' it came out kinda silly. (Laughs)
W: I heard you...got naked first...
E: No way! She never said that...
W: No, but apparently someone that helped her get you there, did.
E: Gawd...can't do nothin'! Don't know 'bout that-but could of happened, I guess.
W: You don't remember?
E: No...don't get naked....for jus' anybody-really.
W: REally!
E: Like to choose who I'm naked with...(Laughs)
W: Well, when you're drunk...you chose her...how about when not drunk?
E: Um not goin' there-me an' her are friends....family ya know, don't get involved with family like that...'cept if 'um drunk. (Laughs) Guess then it's jus' anythin' goes-see-that's why don't drink. Wouldn't know what I did maybe, 'n get in lots of trouble -kind don't need.
W: Okay, that's smart.
E: Well, thank you honey, you said I was smart.
W: Lets add "aleck" to that.
E: (Laughs)
W: I have to go get my kid, I told her I would pick her up-she's going to a high school that's a ways from here and her bike has a flat. So got to go...
E: Okay, thanks for helpin' fill my rainy day misery with some smiles honey. Tell little Julie hi for me...'n Jim also. Really, you heard I was naked?
W: Yeah-but don't believe it...it wasn't coming from her-just got embellished in rumors.
E: Embellished...good word. Okay, bye-bye, see ya in Vegas.
W: For sure! Bye.
(I'd bet that he got off that phone and onto to whom ever he thought might know exactly if he was or not!!!) [[/i]

[Amanda Viola]

Sweet, sweet Elvis!

(I'd bet that he got off that phone and onto to whom ever he thought might know exactly if he was or not!!!)

Yes, I would bet too.

[miracle]

i saw it! hahahahahaaha

TLC
kira

[Rainbow Light]

Such a great conversation - thanks to Starla and also yourself, Wanda - not only for relating it here but also for teasing Elvis some - he's just so cute!

[Wanda June Hill]

The thing that I still sometimes marvel about is the fact of his honesty...so childlike about things that most people would lie, avoid or pretend couldn't ever happen or do. He would just come out with it...nine times out of ten just in "normal conversation" or if questioned a little bit-now if I had been demanding he say-he wouldn't have ever-but to tease him "gently" and make him laugh...out it would come... it was like talking to a child-a young kid so much of the time when things were going good. And even when they weren't he would be hurt like a young kid who just didn't understand why anyone would hurt him or say things a bout him etc:... I guess it was that-he was a kid in a man's body trying to get along in a rough world....a world he just loved but wished so it was more loving and gentle so he tried to make it better-and he sure did that...for so many people and still is. He still is. wjh

[Amanda Viola]

I believe that, in order to reflect God's Love, he had to have a crystal heart.

[Sarena]

I believe that, in order to reflect God's Love, he had to have a crystal heart.

This I also believe!
And That he was a child in an adults body, as Wanda said...

Blessed are the children and pure in heart, for they shall see God

[Rainbow Light]

Agree 100%, ladies!!

[Amanda Viola]

Blessed are the children and pure in heart, for they shall see God

That's it, Christine! As Wanda says: Right on the nail!

[Rainbow Light]

[Barbara Lea]

O TO HAVE HAD JUST ONE DAY WITH THAT MAN! FAIRYTALE!

[Wanda June Hill]

I was rereading to see if I missed anything, didn't have it saved etc: and I thought of what a friend of mine said in relation to what FairyTale is saying in that old post...about having one day etc;... Elvis told my friend who told him she'd like to have just a day to spend around him and with him-he immediately came back with his on stage style, "One day wouldn't be 'nuff baby-no way! Take at least a week-for me 'n you." She liked to died on the phone she said, but didn't let him know it.
Instead she laughed and then he did too-he was teasing of course-but she said, her heart hit the floor at the thought of a week with him! wjh

[MaryInTheMorning]

Thank you for sharing such a great conversation with us Wanda! It's too cute the way you were able to gently tease him enough to get his "hackles risin'"-LOL! Thank you also for sharing with us Elvis's loving and teasing nature with what he said to your friend. He always knew just what to say to someone to show love or share a laugh with them.

[Rainbow Light]

Thank you for sharing, Wanda! Can imagine that lady did get shaken up by Elvis' cute teasing nature!

[Rainbow Light]

The thing that I still sometimes marvel about is the fact of his honesty...so childlike about things that most people would lie, avoid or pretend couldn't ever happen or do. He would just come out with it...nine times out of ten just in "normal conversation" or if questioned a little bit-now if I had been demanding he say-he wouldn't have ever-but to tease him "gently" and make him laugh...out it would come... it was like talking to a child-a young kid so much of the time when things were going good. And even when they weren't he would be hurt like a young kid who just didn't understand why anyone would hurt him or say things a bout him etc:... I guess it was that-he was a kid in a man's body trying to get along in a rough world....a world he just loved but wished so it was more loving and gentle so he tried to make it better-and he sure did that...for so many people and still is. He still is. wjh

AMEN, dear Wanda!!