Viva Las Vegas:Elvis Presley.
#12 on UK Charts and #29 on BB Hot
100 on RCA Records in 1964.
INTRO: G
#1.
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Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set
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my soul on fire.
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Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn,
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so get those stakes up higher.
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There's a thousand pretty women waitin' out there,
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and they're all livin' 'devil may care' and I'm just
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the devil with love to spare.
C G C G
Viva Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas!
#2.
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How I wish that there were more than the twenty-four
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hours in the day.
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Cause even if there were forty more, I wouldn't sleep
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a minute away.
E Em
Oh, there's black jack and poker and the roulette wheel.
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A fortune won and lost on every deal.
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All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel.
C G C G
Viva Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas!
BRIDGE:
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Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one-arm
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bandits crashin', all those hopes down the drain.
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Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin' night
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into daytime..if you see it once, you'll never be the
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same again.
#3.
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I'm gonna keep on the run, I'm gonna have me some fun,
if it costs me my very last dime.
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If I wind up broke, well, I'll always remember that I
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had a swingin' time.
Em C E
I'm gonna give it everything I've got, Lady luck, please let
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the dice stay hot.
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Let me shout a seven with every shot.
C G C G
Viva Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas!
OUTRO:
C G C D G
Viva, Las Vegas, Viva, Viva, Las Vegas!!!!!
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
