ELVIS PRESLEY SONG LYRICS
* A Big Hunk O'love
(Schroeder - Wyche)
Hey baby I ain't asking much of you
No, no, no, no, no, no baby
I ain't asking much of you
Just a big-a, big-a, big-a
Hunk o'love a-will do
Don't be a stingy little momma
You tried to starve me half to death
Now you could spare a kiss or two
And still have many left
No, no, no baby I ain't asking much of you
Just a big-a, big-a, big-a
Hunk o'love a-will do, (a-will do), a-will do, that's right
You're just a natural born beehive
Filled with honey to the top
But I ain't greedy baby
All I want is all you've got
No, no, no baby I ain't asking much of you
Just a big-a, big-a, big-a
Hunk o'love a-will do
I got a wish-bone in my pocket
I got a rabbit's foot around my wrist
Another half of the thing
My lucky charm could bring
If you give me just one sweet kiss
No, no, no baby I ain't asking much of you
Just a big-a, big-a, big-a hunk o'love a-will do, that's nice
Just a big-a, big-a, big-a hunk o'love a-will do, that's nice
Just a big-a, big-a, big-a hunk o'love a-will do, that's nice
* A Boy Like Me A Girl Like You
(Tepper / Bennett)
(Recorded for the film "Girls! Girls! Girls!)
When a boy like me meets a girl like you
Then I must believe wishes come true
I just look at you and I touch your hand
And this ordinary world becomes a wonderland
* There are many girls I have met before
But I pass them by because I knew
There would be this magic moment,
One to last a lifetime through
When a boy like me meets a girl like you
* Repeat
When a boy like me meets a girl like you
* A Cane And A High Starched Collar
(Tepper / Bennett)
Cowboy, cowboy marry me
I'll bake you a cherry pie
Well thank you very kindly mam
But I'm too young to die
* Hi-lo-do-si-dosy-do
Stay single and save a dollar
Come Saturday night I'll court a pretty girl
With a cane and a high starched collar
Cowboy if you'll marry me
I'll be your darling Jenny
Now why should I drink from just one well
When I can drink from twen'y
* Repeat
Cowboy, cowboy name the day
July 'd be nice I reckon
Gladly meet you at the church
July the 32nd
* Repeat
You sleep all day and spoon all night
And eat your favourite chow
Then why should I get married mam
That's what I'm doing now
* Repeat
* A Dog's Life
(Sid Wayne / Ben Weisman)
(Lyrics contributed by Rien Van Houten)
If I had my life to live over
I know just what I'd like to be
A hybrid pet of a rich brunette
Sitting on my mama's knee
Someone to love me
Someone to care
Rubberduck dubble little fingers through my hair
I need a dog's life
What a life, that's good enough for me
That's good enough for me
If I had a bone to be picking
A picking chicken or a steak
Curled up there in an easy chair
Man, that won't be hard to take
I'll always be faithful
That's what I'd be
Never bite a hand that feeds me, no siree
Just lead a dog's life
What a life
That's good enough for me
That's good enough for me
I'd find me a Fifi la poodle
And lose my noodle over her
I chase around all over town
Just to ruffle up her fur
Nuzzle her muzzle
A hole in her paw
Greatest case of puppy lovin' you ever saw
It's called a dog's life
What a life
That's good enough for me
You heard me say it now
That's good enough for me
That's good enough for me
* (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
(Trader)
(Now and then there's a fool such as I)
Pardon me, if I'm sentimental
When we say goodbye
Don't be angry with me should I cry
When you're gone, yet I'll dream
A little dream as years go by
Now and then there's a fool such as I (fool such as I)
* Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you
You taught me how to love
And now you say that we are through
I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear
Until the day I die
Now and then there's a fool such as I (fool such as I)
(Now and then there's a fool such as I)
* Repeat
Now and then there's a fool such as I
Now and then there's a fool such as I
* A House That Has Everything
(Tepper / Bennett)
(Recorded for the film "Clambake")
I can see you now living like a queen
In a house that has everything, everything but love
Crystal chandeliers, chauffeured limousines
Yes you'll really have everything, everything but love
* I see diamonds, sables, sapphires and pearls
And as the picture clears
Poor little rich girl sitting all alone
Counting her treasures in tears
Better just a shack where two people care
Than a house that has everything, everything but love
* Repeat
Than a house that has everything, everything but love
* A Hundred Years From Now
(Flatt / Scruggs)
* Well a hundred years from now I won't be crying
A hundred years from now I won't be blue
My heart will have to forget that we ever met
But I won't care a hundred years from now
I'll never forget sweetheart the night you told me
That you could Live without my love somehow
That's all in the past I knew it wouldn't last
But I won't care a hundred years from now
* Repeat
* Repeat
* Repeat
* A Little Bit Of Green
(Arnold / Morrow / Martin)
Now that the truth is hard to face
I can't forget you once were mine
Someone else is in my place
Whenever we meet my heart beats out of time
Just a little bit of green
Clouds my eyes to what I've seen
Just a little bit of green
When I see you with someone new
And knowing that there's nothing I can do
Please don't try to tie me down
Those are the words you often say
I can't help seeing you around
You smile with surprise, I turn my eyes away
* Just a little bit of green
Wow-oh-ho, clouds my eyes to what I've seen
Just a little bit of green
When I see you with someone new
And knowing that there's nothing I can do
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
* Repeat
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Just a little bit of green
* A Little Less Conversation
(Strange / Davis)
(Recorded for the film "Live A Little, Love A Little")
* A little less conversation, a little more action please
All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me
(Satisfy me) Satisfy me baby (Satisfy me)
Baby close your eyes and listen to the music
Drifting (?) through summer breeze
It's a groovy night and I can show you how to use it
Come along with me and put your mind at ease
* Repeat
Come on baby I'm tired of talking ..........
Grab your coat and let's start walking ........
Come on, come on (come on, come on)
Come on, come on (come on, come on)
Come on, come on (come on, come on)
Don't procastinate, don't articulate
Girl it's getting late, gettin' upset waitin' around
* Repeat
Satisfy me baby ...Satisfy me baby ... Satisy me baby
Satisfy me baby ...Satisfy me ... Satisy me baby
Satisfy me ... Satisy me baby
Satisfy me ... Satisy me baby
Satisfy me ... Satisy me baby
Satisfy me ... Satisy me baby
* A Mess Of Blues
(Pomus - Shuman)
I just got your letter baby
Too bad you can't come home
I swear I'm goin' crazy
Sittin' here all alone
Since your gone
I got a mess of the blues
I ain't slept a week since Sunday
I can't eat a thing all day
Every day is just blue Monday
Since you've been away
Since your gone
I got a mess of the blues
* Whoops there goes a teardrop
Rollin' down my face
If you cry when you're in love
It sure ain't no disgrace
I gotta get myself together
Before I lose my mind
I'm gonna catch the next train goin'
And leave my blues behind
Since your gone
I got a mess of the blues
* Repeat
Since your gone, I got a mess of the blues
Since your gone, I got a mess of the blues
* A Thing Called Love
(Jerry Hubbard)
Six foot six he stood on the ground
Weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds
But I saw that giant of a man brought
Down to his knees by love
He was the kind of man who'd gamble on love
Look you in the eye and never back up
But I saw him crying like a little whipped pup
Because of love
* Can't see it with your eyes, hold it in your hand
But like the wind it covers our land
Strong enough to rule the heart of any man
This thing called love
It can lift you up, it can put you down
Take your world and turn it all around
Ever since time there's nothing ever been found
Stronger than love
It's men like me, they worry and doubt
They trouble their minds day in and day out
Too busy with living to worry about
A thing called love
But when I see a mother's tenderness
As she holds her young close to her breast
Then I thank my God this world's been blessed
With a thing called love
* Repeat
* A Whistling Tune
(Edwards / David)
Did you ever notice when the sun goes down
Out of nowhere comes a strange and pretty sound
It's a whistling tune for walking in the night
If you listen you can hear it in the breeze
Specially when the breeze is drifting through the trees
It's a whistling tune for walking in the night
And the murmuring waters sing the song
The echoing mountains hum alomg
The whispering valleys fill the air
With a whistling tune our hearts can share
It's so wonderful to walk beneath the moon
Listening to old mother nature's favourite tune
It's a whistling tune for walking in the night
* A WORLD OF OUR OWN
( Giant, Baum, Kaye )
(As sung by Elvis in the 1963 movie "It Happened At The World's Fair")
You kiss me darling, a miracle starts
A magic feeling, comes into our hearts
The spell of love begins, when we're alone
And we're in, a world of our own
You say you want me, and music I hear
Touch me my darling, and clouds disappear
The sky is bright above, and cares have flown
And we're in, a world of our own
Holding you close, is heaven
Only I know, what it's worth
Knowing you're mine, forever
Is the greatest wonder on earth
Nothing can change it, the magic's begun
When we're together, our hearts become one
I find a happiness, I've never known
When we're in, a world of our own
When we're in...a world of our own...
* Adam And Evil
(Wise / Starr)
(Recorded for the film "Spinout")
Now Adam and Evil, they go hand in hand
Eve taught him sin, that's the way it all began
But every time you kiss me, my heart pounds like a drum
So trouble is a woman, trouble ... here I come
I'm lonely like Adam, you're evil like Eve
I shouldn't take forbidden fruit 'cos I believe
I'll be heading straight for heartache
I should cut loose and run
But if loving you means heartache
Heartache, here I come
* You're not the angel that I dreamed about
But you're the devil I don't want to live without
A woman's a woman, a man is a man
I can't be free I'm just putty in your hands
Who cares about tomorrow, I need your love tonight
And even if you're evil, baby .... hold me tight
* Repeat
And baby if you're evil, baby .... hold me tight
Hold me tight
Hold me tight
Hold me tight
* After Loving You
(E. Miller / J. Lantz)
But now after loving you, what else is there to do
For honey, all the rest is just gonna have to be second best
I know I'll go through life comparing her to you
That's 'cos I'm no good, I'm no good to anyone after loving you
* Your precious love cannot be erased by just another woman with a pretty face
And your memory, you know it will remain for it cannot be erased
Other loves may come along, they can't live up to you
That's 'cos I'm no good, I'm no good to anyone after loving you
* Repeat
I said I'm no good, I'm no good to anyone after loving you
I said I'm no good, I'm no good, I'm no good to anyone
To anyone, to anyone, to anyone after loving you
That's 'cos I'm no good, I'm no good to anyone after loving you
* Ain't That Loving You Baby
(Otis - Hunter)
I could ride around the world in an old oxcart
And never let another girl thrill my heart
* Ain't that loving you baby?
Ain't that loving you baby?
Ain't that loving you baby?
Ain't that loving you so?
I could meet a hundred girls and have loads of fun
My huggin' and my kissin' belong to just one
* Repeat
If you gave me nine lives like an alley cat
I'd give 'em all to you and never take one back
* Repeat
I'm putting on my Sunday suit and I'm goin' downtown
But I'll be kissin' your lips before the sun goes down
* Repeat
Ain't that loving you baby?
Ain't that loving you so?
* ALL I NEEDED WAS THE RAIN
( Ben Weisman / Sid Wayne )
(As sung by Elvis in the 1968 movie "Stay Away,Joe")
Hello misfortune, how's my old friend "Mr. Misery"?
I've been away so long I bet you thought you seen the last of me
Got no bed, to rest my head
No doors or walls or window pane
Now all I needed was the rain
rain, rain, rain, rain
Met a little honey at the "Buzzin' Bumble Bee Cafe"
Yes I did
One drink and all my money and that honey bee had flown away
I'm 'bout as low, as I can go
I don't really mean to complain
Now all I needed was the rain
rain, rain...rain..rain
(spoken)
All I needed was this rain...
All I needed was the rain...um..um.....
* All Shook Up
(Blackwell - Presley)
A-well-a bless my soul
What's wrong with me
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
My friends say I'm acting wild as a bug
I'm in love! I'm all shook up!
Mm-mm-mm mm-mm! Yeah-yeah!!
My hands are shaky and my knees are weak
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
Who do you thank when you have such luck
I'm in love! I'm all shook up!
Mm-mm-mm mm-mm! Yeah-yeah!!
Please don't ask me what's on my mind
I'm a little mixed up but I'm feeling fine
When I'm near that girl that i love best
My heart beats so it scares me to death
* She touched my hand what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say she's my buttercup
I'm in love! I'm all shook up!
Mm-mm-mm mm-mm! Yeah-yeah!!
My tongue gets tied when I try to speak
My insides shake like a leaf on a tree
There's only one cure for this body of mine
That's to have the gal that I love so fine!
* Repeat
Mm-mm-mm mm-mm! Yeah-yeah!!
I'm all shook up!
* All That I Am
(Tepper / Bennett)
(Recorded for the film "Spinout")
All that I am or ever hope to be
Lies in your hands
You are my destiny
When you are in my arms, I rule the world
And when we're far apart, how cruel the world
* All that I want (All that I want) is to be near to you
To spend my life (To spend my life) making it clear to you
You are my heart, my soul, my dream come true
All that I am, I am because of you
* Repeat
Because of you
Because of you
* Allá En El "Rancho Grande"
(Ramos / Urange / Del Moral)
Allá en el rancho grande
Allá donde vívía
Hablá una rancherita
Que alegre me decía
Que alegre me decía:
"Te voy hacer unas calzones
comos los que esa el ranchero
Los comenzo de lana
y los acabo de hierro."
There in the great ranch
There where she used to live
There used to be a cowgirl
Who joyfully used to tell me
Who joyfully used to tell me
"I'm going to make some trousers
like those which the cowboy wears
I'm starting them with wool
and I'm finishing them with iron."
* Almost
(Kaye / Weisman)
(Recorded for the film "The Trouble With Girls" but not used)
We almost shared a dream
We almost made it as a team
How nice it would have been.
We almost touched the stars
And there stood heaven, almost ours
We were just outsiders looking in.
We had the chance to fall
But fate stepped in to end it all
Before it could begin.
And if it's true, you're really going
There's nothing but goodbye to say
The saddest part of all is knowing
We almost went all the way
* ALMOST ALWAYS TRUE
(Fred Wise / Ben Weisman)
(Lyrics contributed by Rien Van Houten)
I was always
Baby I was always
Well almost always true to you
Met a pretty mademoiselle
Her papa owned a small hotel
Oh, I was almost always true to you
I resisted though my arm was twisted
I was almost always true to you
I stayed away from drink and wine
Thought about you all the time
Oh, I was almost always true to you
Kept refusing
Don't jump to conclusions
I was almost always true to you
I would never grab like this
I would never steal a kiss
Oh, I was almost always true to you
I was almost always true to you
* Almost In Love
(L. Bonfa - R. Starr)
Your lips were made for kisses so tender
I'm almost in love tonight
When we are close, my heart says surrender
I'm almost in love tonight
And here under the spell of evening
I long to hold you tight
Heaven is near, why think of tomorrow
I'm almost in love tonight
It may be just the spell of evening
I long to hold you tight
Heaven is near, why think of tomorrow
I'm almost in love tonight
(Love Tonight)
Almost in love
* ALOHA `OE
(Queen Liliuokalani, Arr.by Elvis)
(As sung by Elvis in the 1961 movie "Blue Hawaii")
ALOHA `OE
Written by Queen Liliuokalani, I quote the following from the book "Na Mele
O Hawaii `I Nei - 101 Hawaiian songs" by Elbert and Mahoe:
"This most famous of all Hawaiian songs was for decades sung for every
departing and arriving steamer. A rather ambiguous statement in "Hawaii's Story
By Hawaii's Queen".. suggests that the song was composed while the Queen
(Liliuokalani) was imprisoned in `Iolani Palace, but on a copy of the song
in her own handwriting in the State Archives, are the place and date:
Maunawili, 1877..."
ALOHA `OE
Ha `aheo `e ka ua i na pali
Ke nihi a `ela i ka nahele
E uhai ana paha i ka liko
Pua `ahiahi lehua o uka
(Proudly the rain on the cliffs
Creeps into the forest
Seeking the buds
And miniature lehua flowers of the uplands)
Hui:
Aloha `oe, aloha `oe
E ke onaona noho i ka lipo
One fond embrace, a ho `i a `e au
A hui hou aku
Chorus:
(Farewell to you, farewell to you
O fragrance in the blue depths
One fond embrace and I leave
To meet again)
`O ka hali `a aloha ka i hiki mai
Ke hone a `e nei i ku `u manawa
`O `oe no ka `u ipo aloha
A loko e hana nei
(Sweet memories come
Sound softly in my heart
You are my beloved sweetheart
Felt within)
Maopopo ku `u `ike i ka nani
Na pua rose o Mauna-wili
I laila ho `ohie na manu
Miki `ala i ka mani o ia pua
(I understand the beauty
Of rose blossoms at Mauna-wili
There the birds delight
Alert the beauty of this flower
* Always On My Mind
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
And maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl I'm sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
And maybe I didn't hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I'm so happy that you're mine
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me,
Tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
Give me,
Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied
I'll keep you satisfied
* AM I READY
(Tepper,Bennett)
(As sung by Elvis in the 1966 movie "Spinout")
Am I ready, can my heart be true?
Am I ready, to fall in love with you
One love, one girl,one dream shared by two
Am I ready, to fall in love with you
I have touched your lips,and now I know
I would be a fool, to let you go
Should I, could I, how I wish I knew
Am I ready, to fall in love with you
Should I, could I, how I wish I knew
Am I ready, to fall in love with you
Fall in love...with..you...
* Amazing Grace
(Arranged by Elvis Presley)
Amazing Grace, well how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when, when we'd first begun
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home
Amazing Grace, well how sweet the sound
To saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see
Was blind, but now I see
* AMEN
(Trad.Arr.by Elvis)
(As sung by Elvis in concert 1976-77)
Amen...Amen...A-men, A-men A-men
Amen..........
Elvis used this traditional spiritual in his live concerts, usually with "I
Got A Woman". The song can be sung over and over repeatedly in improvisation.
* AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
(Trad. Arr. by Elvis Presley)
(As sung by Elvis in concert in 1976 to commemorate the U.S. Bi-Centennial.)
O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above thy fruited plain
America, America
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
>From sea to shining sea
spoken
For beautiful..for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain..majesties
Above the fruited plain...
America!...America!...
God shed His grace..on thee..
And crowned thy good, with brotherhood
From sea...to shining sea...
America!..America!!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea...to..shining..sea!!
AMERICA!!!....
* An American Trilogy
Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old things they are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland
Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away
In Dixieland I take my stand
To live and die in Dixie
Cause Dixieland, that's where I was born
Early Lord one frosty morning
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
His truth is marching on
So hush little baby, don't you cry
You know your daddy's bound to die
But all my trials, Lord
Will soon be over
Glory, glory hallelujah
His truth is marching on
His truth is marching on
* An Evening Prayer
(Battersby / Gabriel)
If I have wounded any soul today
If I have caused one's foot to go astray
If I have walked in my own willful way
Dear Lord, forgive
Forgive the sins I have confessed to thee
Forgive my secret sins I do not see
Oh guide, watch over and my keeper be
Dear Lord, Amen
* And I Love You So
(Don Mclean)
And I love you so
The people ask me how
How I've lived till now
I tell them I don't know
I guess they understand
How lonely life has been
But life began again
The day you took my hand
* And yes I know how lonely life can be
Shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free
But I don't let the evening get me down
Now that you're around me
And you love me too
Your thoughts are just for me
You set my spirits free
I'm happy that you do
The book of life is brief
Once the page is read
All but love is dead
This is my belief
* Repeat
* And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind
(Neil Diamond)
Listen easy, you can hear God calling
Walking barefoot by the stream
Come unto me, your hair's softly falling
On my face as in a dream
And the time will be our time
And the grass won't pay no mind
Saying nothing, lying where the sun is
Baking down upon our sides
My lips touch you, with their soft wet kisses
Your hands gentle in reply
And the time will be our time
And the grass won't pay no mind
Child, touch my soul with your cries
And the music will know what we've found
I hear a hundred goodbyes
But today I hear only one sound
The moment we're living is now
Now now now now now now now
Young birds flying, and a soft wind blowing
Cools the sweat inside my palms
Close my eyes, hear the flowers growing
As you lay sleeping in my arms
And the time will be our time
And the grass won't pay no mind
No the grass won't pay no mind
* ANGEL
(Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett)
As sung by Elvis in the 1962 movie "FOLLOW THAT DREAM"
Angel, with those angel eyes
Come and take this earth boy
Up to paradise
Angel, may I hold you tight?
Never kissed an angel
Let me kiss one tonight
If I said "I love you"
Would I be speaking out of turn?
I'm only human, but I'm willing to learn
Angel, make my wish come true
Let me be in heaven here on earth with you
Angel.......never kissed an angel
Let me kiss one tonight
If I said "I love you"
Would I be speaking out of turn?
I'm only human, but I'm willing to learn
Angel, make my wish come true
Let me be in heaven here on earth with you
Angel, Angel...
* ANIMAL INSTINCT
(Giant, Baum, Kaye)
(As recorded for the 1965 movie "Harum Scarum" but was cut from the final
release)
Don't ever take your eyes off me
Not even for a minute
'cause like a panther I might pounce
And there'd be danger in it
I can be sneaky, fast as a snake
I strike like a cobra, make no mistake
And baby you'll be trapped, quick as a wink
It's animal instinct
Don't think that I won't pin you down
No matter how you plead it
I'm like a lion who's been caged
And you've the meat I'm needin'
Watch out I'll warn ya', sharp as a hawk
I'm wild as a tiger, I prowl and I stalk
'cause when a man feels thirst, he takes a drink
It's animal instinct
You better not be caught off guard
This wolf is on the search now
A leopard just can't change it's spots
And I'm about to lurch now
Loves like a jungle, I'll fight tooth and nail
I've just gotta get you, you'll fall without fail
I'm ready for the kill, I'm right on the brink
It's animal instinct...
It's animal instinct.....animal instinct...
* Any Day Now
(B. Bacharach / B. Hilliard)
Any day now I will hear you say
Goodbye my love
You'll be on your way
Then my wild beautiful bird
You will have flown
Any day now I'll be all alone
Whoa, whoa whoa
Any day now, when your restless eyes
Meet someone new
To my sad surprise
Then the blue shadow will fall all over town
Any day now
Love will let me down
Whoa whoa whoa
I know I shouldn't want to keep you
If you don't want to stay, yeh
Until you've gone forever
I'll be holding on for dear life
Holding you this way
Begging you to stay
Any day now
When the clock strikes go
You'll call it off
Then my tears will flow
Then the blue shadow will fall all over town
Any day now
Love will let me down
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa any day now
Whoa whoa whoa
Whoa any day now
Don't fly away my beautiful bird
Don't fly away my beautiful bird
* Anyone (Could Fall In Love With You)
(Benjamin / Marcus DeJesus)
(Recorded for the film "Kissing Cousins")
Anyone could fall in love with you
Anyone who knows you as I do
Anyone could fall in love with you
And I love you my darling
Anyone could lose his heart like me
Anyone who has eyes that can see
Anyone could fall in love like me
And I love you my darling
You're the star I reached for
You're a dream so rare
You're my greatest treasure
Nothing can compare
Anyone could want you for his own
Anyone not only mine alone
Anyone could fall in love with you
And I love you my darling
Anyone could fall in love with you
And I love you my darling
* Anyplace Is Paradise
(Thomas)
Whether you're riding down a highway
Or walkin' down a street
It makes no difference baby
I'm gonna love you just as mean
'Cause holdin' your little hand
Makes me feel so very nice
Anyplace is paradise
When I'm with you
Whether we're standin' on a doorstep
Or sittin' in a park
Or strollin' down a shady lane
Or dancin' in the dark
Well I can take you in my arms
And look into your pretty eyes
Anyplace is paradise
When I'm with you
Give me a cave up in the mountain
Or a shack down by the sea
And I will be in heaven honey
If you are there with me
Well kiss your pretty lips
See the love-light in your eyes
Anyplace is paradise
When I'm with you
Baby I'd live deep in the jungle
And sleep up in a tree
And let the rest of the world go by
If you were there with me
Well I could love you all the time
Baby, a jungle would be fine
Anyplace is paradise
When I'm with you
* Anything That's Part Of You
(Don Robertson)
I memorize the note you sent
Go all the places that we went
I seem to search the whole day through
For anything that's part of you
I kept a ribbon from your hair
A breath of perfume lingers there
It helps to cheer me when I'm blue
Anything that's part of you
Oh, how it hurts to miss you so
When I know you don't love me anymore
To go on needing you
Knowing you don't need me
No reason left for me to live
What can I take, what can I give
When I'd give all of someone new
For anything that's part of you
* Anyway You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)
(Aron Schroeder / Cliff Owens)
I'll be as strong as a mountain
Or weak as a willow tree
Anyway you want me
Well, that's how I will be
I'll be as tame as a baby
Or wild as the raging sea
Anyway you want me
Well, that's how I will be
In your hands my heart is clay
To take and hold as you may
I'm what you make me
You've only to take me
And in your arms I will stay-ay-ay
I'll be a fool or a wise man
My darling you hold the key
Yes, anyway you want me
Well, that's how I will be
I will be.
* Are You Lonesome Tonight
(Roy Turk / Lou Handman)
Are you lonesome tonight
Do you miss me tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart
Does your memory stray to a bright summer day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart
Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight
(Spoken)
I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someome said that the worlds a stage
And each must play a part
Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart
Act one was when we met
I loved you at first glance
You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two
You seemed to change - you acted strange
And why, I'll never know
Honey you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than to go on living without you
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again
Tell me, dear, are you lonesome tonight
* Are You Sincere
(Wayne Walker)
Are you sincere when you say I love you
Are you sincere when you say you love me too
Oh and are you really mine every day, all the time
I've gotta know which way to go
Will our love grow, are you sincere
Mmmmm
(Spoken)
Are you sincere when you say I love you
Honey, are you sincere when you say you love me too
And are you really mine every day, all the time
I've gotta know which way to go
Will our love grow, are you sincere
(Are you sincere)
* As Long As I Have You
(Wise / Weisman)
Let the stars fade and fall
And I won't care at all
As long as I have you
Every kiss brings a thrill
And I know that it will
As long as I have you
* Let's think of the future
Forget the past
You're not my first love
But you're my last
Take the love that I bring
Then I'll have everything
As long as I have you
* Repeat
As long, as long as I have you
(As long as I have you)
* Ask Me
(Modugno - Giant - Baum - Kaye)
Ask me if I wanted to caress you
And I'll confess
Ask me if I'm longing to possess you
I'll answer yes
* Now that we're together
I could hold you close forever
And I swear that I would never let you go
There's no question that I care more than you know
Love me darling, just be mine completely
And there's nothing I won't do if you
Just ask me
* Repeat
Just ask me
* You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)
(Leiber / Stoller)
You don't like crazy music
You don't like rockin' bands
You just want to go to a movie show
And sit there holding hands
You're so square
Baby I don't care
You don't like hot rod racing
Or driving late at night
You just want to park where it's nice and dark
You just want to hold me tight
You're so square
Baby I don't care
You don't know any dance steps that are new
No one else can love me like you do, do, do, do
* I don't why my heart flips
I only know it does
I wonder why I love you babe
I guess it's just because
You're so square
Baby I don't care
Baby I don't care
Baby I don't care
Baby I don't care
* Repeat
Baby I don't care
Baby I don't care
Baby I don't care
Care, care, care,
I dont care, care, care, care,
* Baby, If You'll Give Me All Of Your Love
(Joy Byers)
(Recorded for the film "Double Trouble")
I'll send you red roses by the dozen
I'll call you sweet little things like turtle dove
I'll whisper pretty things in your ear
The kinda things a girl likes to hear
Baby, if you'll give me all of your love
I'll bring you pounds and pounds of chocolate candy
To prove it's you that I've been thinking of
Tear up all the pictures I own of every pretty girl I've ever known
Baby, if you'll give me all of your love
* I'll take you dancin' every night until you're ready to drop
I'll kiss your sweet red cherry lips until you holler stop
Every night I'll serenade you 'neath your window
If you need me just a whistle and I won't need a shove
I'll hug you squeeze you tight as I can
It ain't gonna be no one-night stand
Baby, if you'll give me all of your love
· Repeat
Baby, if you'll give me all of your love
If you will give me, if you will give me all your love
* Baby Let's Play House
(Arthur Gunter)
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby baby
Baby, baby baby, b-b-b-b-b-b baby baby, baby
Baby baby baby
Come back, baby, I wanna play house with you
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 talking 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
Well, 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
Hit it
Yeah
Well 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
Oh, baby baby baby
Baby baby baby b-b-b-b-b-b baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
Come back, baby, I wanna play house with you
* Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do
(Jimmy Reed)
* We goin' up, we're goin' down
We goin' up, down down up
Any way you wanna let it roll
Yeh, yeh, yeh
You got me doin' what you want me
Oh baby what d'you want me to do
** You got me creepin' you got me hidin'
You got me creep hide hide creep
Any way you wanna let it roll
Yeh yeh yeh
You got me doin what you want me
Baby what d'you want me to do
* Repeat
** Repeat
* Barefoot Ballad
(Fuller / Morris)
(Recorded for the film "Kissing Cousins")
* I want a barefoot ballad yes a barefoot ballad
Won't you play for me a down home country song
'Cos when I kick my shoes off and I kick my blues off
With a barefoot ballad you just can't go wrong
Give me a honk-tonk fiddle with a guitar in the middle and a melody
Humming like a fountain swinging out on smokey mountain
* Repeat
Now the big toe's connected to the two toe
And the two toe's connected to the three toe
And the three toe's connected to the four toe
And the four toe's connected to the five toe
And the five toe (that's a live toe) and away we go
* Repeat
Now the big toe's connected to the two toe
And the two toe's connected to the three toe
And the three toe's connected to the four toe
And the four toe's connected to the five toe
And the five toe (that's a live toe, what's a live toe, that's a jive toe
what's a jive toe, that's a drive toe) and away we go
I wanna barefoot ballad yes a barefoot ballad
Won't you play for me (play for who, play for him
play for her her) a barefoot ballad song.
* BEACH BOY BLUES
(Tepper, Bennett)
(As sung by Elvis in the 1961 movie "Blue Hawaii")
I'm a poor Hawaiian beach boy
A long way, from the beach
Cause' someone shoved his face against my hand
Now I'm a kissin' cousin, to a ripe pineapple
I'm in the can
I was mindin' my own business
Drinkin' Daddy's juice
I swear I'll never touch that stuff again
Just like the pig before he gave his...
All at the luau
I'm...in the pen
Got those beach boy blues
Don't the time go slow?
Lonely beach boy blues
Only thirty days and ninety years to go
I wanna taste the honey
From my wahini's lips
I wanna be her ever-lovin' man
But I'm a kissin' cousin, to a ripe pineapple
I'm in the can
But I'm a kissin' cousin to a ripe pineapple
I'm in the can...
* BEACH SHACK
(Giant,Baum,Kaye)
(As sung by Elvis in the 1966 movie "Spinout")
When you're through swimming
I'll dry your back
Come and relax girl
In my little beach shack
dum-di-dum-di-dum, yeah-yeah-yeah
There'll be nothing you'll lack
It's a pleasure to welcome you
In my little beach shack
*chorus
In my beach shack, baby we'll be alone
In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home
Take off that wet cap
Let down your hair
Come to my beach shack
You'll be comfortable there
(dum-di-dum-di-dum, yeah-yeah-yeah)
Be my guest, have a snack
See how nice I feed company
In my little beach shack
repeat*
Come see my etchings
I wish you would
Don't be afraid girl
My intentions are good
You believe me now..
(dum-di-dum-di-dum, yeah-yeah-yeah)