Viva Las Vegas/Roustabout Lyrics - 1964
(words & music by doc pomus and mort shuman)
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
Dead or livin' 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 you 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 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, viva las vegas
