VIVA LAS VEGAS
Title song from the film "Viva Las Vegas" (1964)
(Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman)

Elvis Presley - 1964
Tony Steven - 1964
Los Extraños - 1965
Dead Kennedy's - 1981
Danny Mirror & The Jordanaires - 1981
Nina Hagen - 1989
Wilmer X - 1990
ZZ Top - 1992
Girl Trouble - 1992
Tennessee Rhythm Boys - 1998
The King Beans - 2001
Amanda Lear - 2014



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 
They're all livin' the devil may care 
And I'm just a 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 
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 your 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 a'runnin', 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 Las Vegas 
Viva, Viva Las Vegas 


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2018)