KING CREOLE (Soundtrack)


Songs from the film "King Creole" (1958)
Starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau and Dolores Hart
















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TURTLES, BERRIES AND GUMBO
Written by Al Wood & Kay Twomey
Performed by 3 Street Vendors




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CRAWFISH
Written by Fred Wise & Ben Weisman
Performed by Elvis Presley and Kitty White




KITTY: 
Crawfish, Crawfish
Fresh and ready to cook


ELVIS: Crawfish 
KITTY: Crawfish


ELVIS:
Well I went to the bayou just last night
There was no moon, but the stars were bright
Put a big long hook on a big long pole
And I pulled Mr. Crawfish out of his hole


ELVIS: Crawfish
KITTY: Crawfish


BOTH:
See I got 'em, see the size
Stripped and cleaned before your eyes
Sweet meat look
Fresh and ready to cook


ELVIS: Crawfish
KITTY: Crawfish


ELVIS:
Now take Mr. Crawfish in your hand
He's gonna look good in your frying pan
If you fry him crisp or you boil him right
He'll be sweeter than sugar with every bite


ELVIS: Crawfish
KITTY: Crawfish


BOTH:
See I got him, see the size
Stripped and cleaned before your eyes
Sweet meat look
Fresh and ready to cook


ELVIS: Crawfish  
KITTY: Crawfish


KITTY:
See I got 'em, see the size
Stripped and cleaned........FADE




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STEADFAST, LOYAL AND TRUE
Written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Performed by Elvis Presley




Farewell Royal High School
We'll remember you
Dear alma mater
We're steadfast, loyal and true


As we go onward
In the lives we lead
Your light will guide us
Your motto is our creed


We will look back fondly
At your ivy walls
Recalling precious moments
Within your hallowed halls


Farewell Royal High School
We'll remember you
Dear alma mater
We're steadfast, loyal and true




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LOVER DOLL
Written by Sid Wayne & Abner Silver
Performed by Elvis Presley




Lover doll, oh, lover doll
Lover doll, lover doll


Youre the cutest lover doll
That I ever did ever see
Let me tell you lover doll
You were meant, just meant for me


>From the first time that I saw you
How I fell for your cuddly charms
Lover doll I'm crazy for you
Let me rock you in my arms


Im so glad I found you
Never thought dollies came full grown
I'm gonna tie a ribbon around you
Wrap you up and a-take you home


I would never treat you badly
Like a cast away broken toy
Lover doll I love you madly
Let me be your lover boy


I'm so glad I found you
Never thought dollies came full grown
I'm gonna tie a ribbon around you
Wrap you up and a-take you home


I would never treat you badly
Like a cast away broken toy
Lover doll I love you madly
Let me be your lover boy


Lover doll, lover doll
Lover doll, lover doll
Lover doll, lover doll
Let me be your lover boy


Lover doll, lover doll
Lover doll, lover doll
Lover doll, lover doll
Let me be your lover boy
Let me be your lover boy
Let me be your lover boy




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TROUBLE
Written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Performed by Elvis Presley




If you're looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you're looking for trouble
Just look right in my face
I was born standin' up
And talkin' back
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery, yeah, yeah
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me


I've never looked for trouble
But I've never ran
I don't take no orders
>From no kind o' man
I'm only made out of
Flesh, blood and bone
But if you're gonna start a rumble
Don't you try it on alone
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery, yeah
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me


I'm evil, evil, evil as can be
I'm evil, evil, evil as can be
So don't mess around, don't mess around, don't mess around with me
I'm evil, I'm evil, evil, evil
So don't mess around, don't mess around with me
I'm evil, I tell you I'm evil
So don't mess around with me


Yeah!




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BANANAS
Performed by Liliane Montevecchi




Bananas
Anybody want bananas
Ripe and ready this banana
Come and pick it off a tree, oui


Ah, honey
If you feel your heart go reeling
When you see banana peeling
Then be sure you are fini, mais oui




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DIXIELAND ROCK
Written by Claude Demetrius & Fred Wise
Performed by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires




Well down in New Orleans at the Golden Goose
I grabbed a green-eyed dolly that was on the loose
Well I dig that music, but she sent me too
I said pretty baby come on and lets do


The Dixieland Rock (Dixieland Rock)
Well the Dixieland Rock (Dixieland Rock)
Let your hair down sugar, shake it free
And do the Dixieland Rock with me


With the blue light shining on her swinging hips
She got the drummer so nervous that he lost his sticks
The cornet player hit a note thats flat
The tromboner hit him while the poor cat sat


Do the Dixieland Rock (Dixieland Rock)
Well the Dixieland Rock (Dixieland Rock)
Let your hair down sugar, shake it free
And do the Dixieland Rock with me, hah-hah-hah-hah
(Instrumental Break)


I was all pooped out and when the clock struck four
But she said no daddy cant leave the floor
She wore a clinging dress that fit so tight
She couldnt sit down, so we danced all night


To the Dixieland Rock (Dixieland Rock)
Well the Dixieland Rock (Dixieland Rock)
Let your hair down sugar, shake it free
And do the Dixieland Rock with me (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Let your hair dance sugar, shake it free
And do the Dixieland Rock with me
(Dixeland, Dixieland, Dixieland Rock, Dixieland Rock))




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YOUNG DREAMS
Written by Schroeder & Martin Kalmanoff
Performed by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires




(Young dreams of love, young dreams of love)


Young dreams (Young dreams, young dreams)
My heart is filled with young dreams (dreams)
And I'm longing to
Share them all with you


In my eyes (my eyes, my eyes)
Oh, can't you see in my eyes (his eyes)
That you're the only one who
Can make my young dreams come true


I have young arms (Arms)
That wanna hold you (hold you)
Hold you oh so tight
I have young lips (lips)
That want to kiss you (kiss you)
Kiss you morning noon and night


Take my hand (my hand, my hand)
Oh, darlin' take my hand (take hand)
And let me make you a part
Of all my young dreams of love


I have young arms 
That wanna hold you
Hold you oh so tight
I have young lips
That want to kiss you 
Kiss you morning noon and night


Take my hand (my hand, my hand)
Oh darling take my hand (take hand), oh-oh-oh-oh
And let me make you a part (Let me make you a part)
Of all my young dreams of love
A part of all of my young dreams of love
(Young dreams of love, young dreams of love, yeah!)




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NEW ORLEANS
Written by Sid Tepper & Roy C Bennett
Performed by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires




(You'll never know) You'll never know
(What heaven means) What heaven means
Until you've been down to New Orleans (New Orleans)
You aint been livin' till you cuddle and coo (Ooh)
A-with a black-eyed baby by the old bayou


(You've never seen) You've never seen
(Cupid doll queens) You've never seen those cupid doll queens
Like they got 'em in New Orleans (New Orleans)
Ah-ooh, they love you like no one can (Aagghhh!)
It makes you awful glad that you were born a man 


An' if-if-if you aint been there (Been there)
Man, you aint been nowhere (Nowhere)
The livin's lazy and the lovin's fine (It's so fine)
If you feel low down (Low down)
So help me, Hannah (Hannah)
You sure to lose the blues in Lousi-ousi-ousi-ana


(So, get the lead) Get the lead
(Out o' your jeans) Get the lead out o' your jeans
And hot foot it down, hot foot down to where 
New Orleans (New Orleans)
Louisiana baby tells you stay awhile (Yeah)
Live it up (Yeah), love it up (Yeah), Southern style
Way down in New (Down in New), New Orleans




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HARD HEADED WOMAN
Written by Claude Demetrius
Performed by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires




A-well a hard headed woman, a soft hearted man
Been the cause of trouble ever since the world began
Oh yeah (Oh yeah), ever since the world began, ah-hah-hoo
A hard headed woman been a thorn in the side o' man, ah-hah-hoo


Well Adam told Eve "Listen here to me
Dont you let me catch you messin' round that apple tree"
Oh yeah (Oh yeah), ever since the world began, ah-hah-hoo
A hard headed woman been a thorn in the side o' man
Oh yeah (Oh yeah), ever since the world began, ah-hah-hoo
A hard headed woman been a thorn in the side o' man


Now Samson told Delilah loud and clear
"A-keep your cotton pickin fingers out my curly hair"
Oh yeah (Oh yeah), ever since the world began, ah-hah-hoo
A hard headed woman been a thorn in the side o' man, ah-hah-hoo


I heard about a king who was doin' swell
Till he started playin' with that evil Jezebel
Oh yeah (Oh yeah), ever since the world began, ah-hah-hoo
A hard headed woman been a thorn in the side o' man
Ah-hah-hoo, ah-hah-hoo, ah-hah-hoo, ah-hah-hoo, ah-hah-hoo
ah-hah-hoo, ah-hah-hoo


I got a woman, a head like a rock
If she ever went away, I'd cry around the clock
Oh yeah (Oh yeah), ever since the world began, ah-hah-hoo
A hard headed woman been a thorn in the side o' man, ah-hah-hoo
A hard headed woman been a thorn in the side o' man 
Ah-hah-hoo!




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KING CREOLE
Written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Performed by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires




(King Creole.............Go!)


Theres a man in New Orleans who plays a-rock and roll
He's a guitar man with a great big soul
He lays down a beat like a ton of coal
He goes by the name of King Creole


You know hes gone, gone, gone
Jumpin' like a catfish on a pole, yeah
You know hes gone, gone, gone
That-a hip shakin' King Creole (King Creole, King Creole)


When the King starts to do it, its as good as done
He holds his guitar like a tommy gun
He starts to growl from way down his throat
He bends a string and thats all she wrote


You know hes gone, gone, gone
Jumpin' like a catfish on a pole, yeah
You know hes gone, gone, gone
That-a hip shakin' King Creole (King Creole, King Creole)


He sings a song about a crawdad hole
He sings a song about a jelly roll
He sings a song about pork and greens
He wails some blues 'bout New Orleans


You know hes gone, gone, gone
Jumpin' like a catfish on a pole
You know hes gone, gone, gone
That-a hip shakin' King Creole (King Creole, King Creole)


(Instrumental Break)


(Yeah!) He plays somethin' evil, then he plays somethin' sweet
No matter what he plays, you got to get up on your feet
And when he gets the rockin fever, baby, heaven sakes
He dont stop playin' till his guitar breaks
 
You know hes gone, gone, gone
Jumpin' like a catfish on a pole, yeah
You know hes gone, gone, gone
That-a hip shakin' king creole
(King Creole, yeah go!)
You know hes gone, gone, gone
Hip shakin' King Creole
(Creole, Creole, Creole, Creole)




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DON'T ASK ME WHY
Written by Fred Wise & Ben Weisman
Performed by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires




I'll go on loving you (Loving you) 
Don't ask me why (Don't ask me why)
Don't know what else to do
Don't ask me why
How sad my heart would be  (Heart would be)
If you should go (If you should go)
Though you're not good for me
I want you so
It's not the kind 
Of love I dream about
But it's the kind
That I can't live without
You're all I'm longing for (Longing for) 
Don't say goodbye (Don't say goodbye)
I need you more and more
Don't ask me why
I need you more and more
Don't ask me why (Don't ask me why)




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AS LONG AS I HAVE YOU
Written by Fred Wise and Ben Weisman
Performed by Elvis Presley




Let the stars fade and fall
And I wont 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


Lets think of the future, forget the past
Youre 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


Lets think of the future, forget the past
Youre not my first love, but youre my last
Take the love that I bring 
Then I'll have everything
As long as I have you


As long, as long as I have you 
(As long as I have you)




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DANNY
(Recorded for, but not used in the film)
Performed by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires




(Danny is my name, oh-oh-oh yes)
My name should be trouble 
My name should be woe
For trouble and heartache
Is all that I know
Oh-oh-oh, Danny
Yes, Danny is my name
(Oh-oh-oh, yes, oh-oh-oh, yes)


My life has been empty
My heart has been torn
It must have been raining, oh yes
The night I was born
Oh-oh-oh, Danny
Oh-oh-oh Danny is my name
(Danny is my name, oh-oh-oh yes)


Im so afraid of tomorrow (Of tomorrow)
So tired of today (Tired of today)
They say that love is the answer
But love never came my way


I'm writing a letter
To someone unknown
So if you should find it, oh yes
And if youre alone
Oh-oh-oh Danny
Yes, Danny is my name
(Oh-oh-oh, yes)
Oh-oh-oh Danny
Yes, Danny is my name
Oh-oh-oh-oh 






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All songs transcribed and/or verified by Mel Priddle - October 2007)




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(Contributed by  - October 2007)