Lot 221
221
Elvis Presley

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Elvis Presley
A rare page of lyrics in Elvis Presley's hand for Two Different Worlds, circa 1959, the words and music credited by Presley to Sid Layne and Al Frish, the seventeen lines in blue ink, beginning Two different worlds We live in two different worlds For we've been told that A love like ours could never be so far apart continuing with the lament ..When will they learn That a heart doesn't draw a line Nothing matters if I'm yours and you are mine.. and ending on a defiant note ...but we will show them as we walk together in the sun That our two different worlds are one., the foot of the page with additional comments in Presley's hand some of which have been deleted, the remainder reading Change music lyrics fine but don't like composition E.P. Don't see any break or backing vocals -- 11¼x8in. (28.6x20.3cm.) in common mount with a black and white machine-print photograph of Presely disembarking from a train in his army uniform -- 10¾x8¼in. (27.3x21cm.), overall measurements -- 14½x21¼in. (36.8x54cm.) framed
Provenance
Andy Schröer, author of Private Elvis, Elvis In Germany - The Missing Years obtained these lyrics and those in lots 223 and 226, from Frau Pieper, Elvis Presley's landlady in Germany, who rented her house to the Presleys at 14 Goethestrasse, Bad Nauheim, Germany in 1959 during Elvis' army service.

Lot Essay

The song Two Different Worlds was a hit in 1956 for Roger Williams and Jane Morgan and was not recorded by Elvis Presley.

These lyrics, like the other examples of lyrics in Presley's hand to have been offered at auction and sold through these rooms in 1996, 1997 and 1998, came from Presley's personal notebook. Elvis had left this behind with his landlady in Germany when he returned to the States in 1960. He apparently used to rehearse in the living room of the house he rented from Frau Pieper using a piano he hired for the purpose.

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