There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis

"There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis"
Single by Kirsty MacColl
from the album Desperate Character
B-side	Hard To Believe There's a Guy... (Country version)
Released	May 1981
Genre	Country pop
Label	Polydor
Songwriter(s)	Kirsty MacColl Philip Rambow
Producer(s)	Barry Farmer
Kirsty MacColl singles chronology
"Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" (1981) "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" (1981) "See That Girl" (1981)

"There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" is a song by British singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl, which was released as the lead single from her debut studio album Desperate Character. The song was written by MacColl and Philip Rambow, and produced by Barry Farmer. It reached No. 14 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the charts for nine weeks.^[1] In the US, the song's British chip shop reference was changed to truck stop.

Norwegian singer Elisabeth Andreasson covered the song on her 1981 country album Angel of the Morning, with lyrics in Swedish by Hasse Olsson as "Killen ner' på Konsum svär att han är Elvis" ("The guy down Konsum swears he's Elvis").^[2]