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Elvis Costello – Please Mr. Kennedy (2015) | Track profile | Dork

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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Please Mr. Kennedy

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Please Mr. Kennedy

Release date: 2015

From Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis”

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About This Track

"Please Mr. Kennedy" is a track by Elvis Costello, from the album Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis”, released 2015. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Please Mr. Kennedy

[Intro]

10...9...8...7.6.5...4...3...2...

One second please!

[Chorus]

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

[Verse 1]

I sweat when they stuff me in the pressure suits

Bubble helmet, Flash Gordon boots

Nowhere up there in gravity zero (outer...space)

I need to breathe, don't need to be a hеro (outer...space)

And are you rеading me loud and clear?

Oh!

[Chorus]

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

[Verse 2]

I'm six-foot-two, and so perhaps you

Tell me how to fit into a five foot capsule

Don't  wanna be known as the man of the century

And if I'll burn on reentry

Gotta red-blooded wife with a healthy libido (outer...space)

You'll lose her vote if you make her a widow (outer...space)

And who'll play catch out in the back with our kid?

Oh!

[Chorus]

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

[Bridge]

Countdown!

10...9...8...7.6.5...4...3...2...

Oh no!

[Chorus]

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

Please Mr. Kennedy (Uh oh!)

I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)

P-P-Please (Mr. Kennedy)

P-P-Please  (Mr. Kennedy don't shoot me off into outer space)

Please  (Mr. Kennedy)

P-P-Please  (Mr. Kennedy don't shoot me off into outer space)

Please  (Mr. Kennedy)

P-P-Please  (Mr. Kennedy don't shoot me off into outer space)

Please Mr. Kennedy!

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From Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis”

2015

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Album

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis”

Release year

2015

—Joe Hill
—I Was Young When I Left Home
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—Four Strong Winds
—Give Me Cornbread When I'm Hungry
—Did You Hear John Hurt?
—Farewell
—Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)
—Hang Me, Oh Hang Me

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