Jesus and elvis, painted on velvet

Hanging at the bar here every night

It's good to be back again, oh me and my old friends

Neath the neon cross and a string of christmas lights.

Lola built this joint in sixty-seven

And her boy went out to fight on christmas eve

In a war nobody won, she lost her only son

Now everything he loved is what you see.

Jesus and elvis, painted on velvet

Hanging at the bar here every night

It's good to be back again, oh me and my old friends

Neath the neon cross and a string of christmas lights.

Mama told them jesus loves a sinner

His daddy said that music saved his soul

Between the drunkards and the band

It's a fitting promised land

For the king of kings and the king of rock and roll.

Jesus and elvis, painted on velvet

Hanging at the bar here every night

It's good to be back again, oh me and my old friends

Neath the neon cross and a string of christmas lights.

So if you need a shot of whiskey and redemption

Where the delta meets the sea of galilee

Get washed in the blood of the mississippi mud

Come all you non-believers and you'll see.

Jesus and elvis, painted on velvet

Hanging at the bar here every night

It's good to be back again, oh me and my old friends

Neath the neon cross and a string of christmas lights.

By and by, lord, by and by.