Elvis Presley – Baby Let’s Play House – Meaning of the song!

This was written by Arthur Gunter and was more provocative and suggestive than any of Elvis’s hip swivelling.

My Nan used to play Housey Housey (Bingo) but that’s not what Elvis was singing about here. This was a song asking his woman to come back to him so that they could set up home or sleep together. This was no marriage proposal.

It puts the whole lie to Elvis’ protestations of innocence and his ‘good boy’ image. Elvis grew up in Tupelo from poor white farmers and subsistence farming. He hung around the black quarters in the wrong side of town. He’d been a truck driver. He knew what was going down.

This was a song about sex. This was the seminal, earthy Elvis, pushing the limits and bringing raw sex out of the black culture and straight into the living room of gentile white folks. It shocked the parents of those naïve, innocent apple-pie suburban parents but it sent a jolt of lighting through the groins of their children. It unleashed a storm.

All those young girls would do anything to play house with Elvis. He was sex on wheels and those wheels were those of a pink Cadillac.

Baby Let’s Play House

Well, you may go to college
You may go to school
You may have a pink Cadillac
But don’t you be nobody’s fool

Now baby
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby
I wanna play house with you

Now listen and I’ll tell you baby
What I’m talkin’ about
Come on back to me, little girl
So we can play some house

Now baby
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby
I wanna play house with you
Oh let’s play house, baby

Now this is one thing, baby
That I want you to know
Come on back and let’s play a little house
And we can act like we did before

Well, baby
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby
I wanna play house with you

Yeah
Now listen to me, baby
Try to understand
I’d rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man

Now baby
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby, come
Come back, baby
I wanna play house with you

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