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Viva Las Vegas

(Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman)


Copyright Elvis Presley Music Inc.


Soundtrack recording for MGM - Viva Las Vegas - July 9-11, August 30 and september 13, 1963 - Radio Recorders - Hollywood

 July 9, 7 pm-12 am, 1-4:15 am

Studio matrix: 2004-na - RCA matrix: RPA3 0234-01 - Tryout
November 5, 2001 CD RCA 07863-66050-2 FTD Silver Screen Stereo

July 10, 7-11 pm

Studio matrix: 2004-na - RCA matrix: RPA3 0234-07
April 1964 Single B side RCA 47-8360 What'd I Say / Viva Las Vegas
Outtakes:
Takes 1 (tryout) and 2: November 10, 2003 CD FTD 82876 50412-2 Viva Las Vegas








Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire.
Got a whole lot a money
That's a-ready to burn
So, get those stakes up higher
There's a thousand pretty women
Waitin' out there
They're all livin' the devil may care
And I'm just a devil with love to spare
So, Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas


How I wish that there were more
Than twenty four hours in a day
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 every deal
All you need's a strong heart
And a nerve of steel
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas


Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin'
And your one-arm bandits crashin'
All those hopes down the drain
Viva Las Vegas turning day into nighttime
Turning 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, Ah well I'll always remember
That I had a swinging time
Oh, I'm gonna give it everything I've got
So Lady Luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shoot a seven with every shot
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas
Viva, Viva Las VEGAAAS...



(g)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 (b7) a  (em) thousand pretty women  (em) waitin' out there
And they're all livin'  devil may care
And I'm just the devil with love to spare
(c) Viva Las (g) Vegas, (c) Viva Las (g) Vegas

How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty four hours in the day
Cos even if there wore many 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
(c)Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin'
and your one arm bandits  (g)crashin' all your hope right down the drain

(c)Viva Las Vegas turning day into night time
turning night into daytime
If you (a7) see it once you'll never be the same (d7) again

I'm (g)gon(d7)na (g) keep on the run, I'm gonna have me some fun
And if it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke, well, I'll always remember I had a swinging time (b7)

(em)I'm gonna give it ev'ry thing I've got
Lady luck, please let the dice stay hot
Let me shoot a seven with ev'ry shot

(c)Viva las (g)vegas, (c)viva las (g)vegas, (c)viva las (g)vegas, (c)viva (d7) viva las (g) vegas