Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Gold Records 4 (Remastered))
Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Gold Records 4 (Remastered))
(words & music by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman)
Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn,
So get those stakes up higher
There's a thousand pretty women waitin' out there
And they're all livin' devil may care
And I'm just the devil with love to spare
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas
How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty-four hours in the day
'Cause even if there were forty more
I wouldn't sleep a minute away
Oh, there's black jack and poker and the roulette wheel
A fortune won and lost on ev'ry deal
All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas with you neon flashin'
And your one armbandits crashin'
All those hopes down the drain
Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime
Turnin' night into daytime
If you see it once
You'll never be the same again
I'm gonna keep on the run
I'm gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke up well
I'll always remember that I had a swingin' time
I'm gonna give it ev'rything I've got
Lady luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shoot a seven with ev'ry shot
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas,
Viva, Viva Las Vegas
Elvis Presley Viva Las Vegas (02:23)
A great song from The King Lyrics: Bright light city gonna set my soul Gonna set my soul on fire Got
a whole lot of money thats ready to burn, So get those stakes up higher Theres a thousand pretty
women waitin out there And theyre all livin devil may care And Im just the devil with love to spare
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas How I wish that there were more Than the twenty-four hours in the day
cause even if there were forty more I wouldnt sleep a minute away Oh, theres black jack and poker
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jerryfrankh: guess they're both up there now then having a little sing song. ; )
Autor: Cocothebastard
2
kathleen was my nans name who sadly passed away last week and this song is gonna be played as we carry her out of the church GODBLESS NANXXXX
Autor: brads1983
3
He had relatives in Co Clare apparently
Autor: MrSean677
4
great song by the greatest entertainer of all time, but dont understand what maureen o'hara as got to do with ''kathleen''!!!
Autor: melbournelee
5
Maureen was just about the biggest box office name associated with Ireland
Autor: ROKtigerdivision
6
maureen o'hara starred as Kathleen in a few films with John Wayne. The song was played constantly. Elvis does this song credit
Autor: holmes262
7
Coco you bastard, you made me cry. My mother and her sister were singing this song on my mother's deathbed two days before she passed. Thanks for the post.
Autor: jerryfrankh
8
Beautifully performed by Elvis !
The song was written in 1875 by Thomas P. Westendorf, a public school music teacher in Plainfield, Ind. The story goes that Westendorf's wife, Jennie (sometimes referred to as Jeanie), was away on a trip to her hometown of Ogdensburg, N.Y., and he wrote the song to express his loneliness and his feelings for her and a promise to take her back to the old country, where she presumably wanted to go.