Don's 10 Favorite Elvis Songs


Guitar Man
Jailhouse Rock
Are You Lonesome Tonight
(You're the) Devil in Disguise
Kiss Me Quick
Burning Love
Good Luck Charm
Wooden Heart
Return To Sender
Bossa Nova Baby

* Guitar Man
(Hubbard)

Well, I quit my job down at the car wash,
Left my mama a goodbye note,
By sundown I'd left Kingston,
With my guitar under my coat,
I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis,
Got a room at the YMCA,
For the next three weeks I went huntin' them nights,
Just lookin' for a place to play,
Well, I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire,
But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

Well, I nearly 'bout starved to death down in Memphis,
I run outta money and luck,
So I bought me a ride down to Macon, Georgia,
On a overloaded poultry truck,
I thumbed on down to Panama City,
Started pickin' out some o' them all night bars,
Hopin' I could make myself a dollar,
Makin' music on my guitar,
I got the same old story at them all night piers,
There ain't no room around here for a guitar man
We don't need a guitar man, son

So I slept in the hobo jungles,
Roamed a thousand miles of track,
Till I found myself in Mobile Alabama,
At a club they call Big Jack's,
A little four-piece band was jammin',
So I took my guitar and I sat in,
I showed 'em what a band would sound like,
With a swingin' little guitar man.
Show 'em, son

If you ever take a trip down to the ocean,
Find yourself down around Mobile,
Make it on out to a club called Jack's,
If you got a little time to kill,
Just follow that crowd of people,
You'll wind up out on his dance floor,
Diggin' the finest little five-piece group,
Up and down the Gulf of Mexico,
Guess who's leadin' that five-piece band,
Well, wouldn't ya know, it's that swingin' little guitar man.


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* Jailhouse Rock
(Leiber / Stoller)

The warden threw a party in the county jail
The prison band was there and they began to wail
The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing
You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing
* Let's rock, everybody, let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block was a dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock

Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone
Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang
The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang
* Repeat

Number forty-seven said to number three
You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see
I sure would be delighted with your company
Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me
* Repeat

The sad sack was a sittin' on a block of stone
Way over in the corner weepin' all alone
The warden said, Hey, buddy, don't you be no square
If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair
* Repeat

Shifty Henry said to Bugs, For Heaven's sake
No one's lookin', now's our chance to make a break
Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, Nix nix
I wanna stick around a while and get my kicks
* Repeat

Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock


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* Are You Lonesome Tonight
(Roy Turk / Lou Handman)

Are you lonesome tonight
Do you miss me tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart
Does your memory stray to a bright summer day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart
Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight

(Spoken) I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someome said that the worlds a stage
And each must play a part
Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart
Act one was when we met
I loved you at first glance
You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two
You seemed to change - you acted strange
And why, I'll never know
Honey you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than to go on living without you
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down

Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again
Tell me, dear, are you lonesome tonight


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* (You're the) Devil in Disguise
(Giant / Baum / Kaye)

* You look like an angel, walk like an angel
Talk like an angel, but I got wise
You're the devil in disguise, oh yes you are
The devil in disguise. Mmmm

You fooled me with your kisses
You cheated and you schemed
Heaven knows how you lied to me
You're not the way you seemed

* Repeat

I thought that I was in heaven
But I was sure surprised
Heaven help me I didn't see
The devil in your eyes

* Repeat

You're the devil in disguise, oh yes you are
The devil in disguise. Mmmm (Oh yes you are)
Devil in disguise. (Oh yes you are)
Devil in disguise. (Oh yes you are)
Devil in disguise. (Oh yes you are)


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* Kiss Me Quick
(Pomus - Shuman)

Kiss me quick while we still have this feeling
Hold me close and never let me go
'Cause tomorrows can be so uncertain
Love can fly and leave just hurting
Kiss me quick because I love you so

Kiss me quick and make my heart go crazy
Sigh that sigh and whisper oh so low
Tell me that tonight will last forever
Say that you will leave me never
Kiss me quick because I love you so

* Let the band keep playing while we are swaying
Let's keep on praying that we'll never stop

** Kiss me quick, I just can't stand this waiting
'Cause your lips are lips I long to know
For that kiss will open heaven's door
And we'll stay there for evermore
So kiss me quick because I love you so

* Repeat

** Repeat
Kiss me quick because I love you so
Kiss me quick because I love you so
Kiss me quick because I love you so


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* Burning Love
(Dennis Linde)

Lord Almighty I feel my temperature risin'
Higher and higher it's burning through to my soul
Girl, girl, girl, you're gonna set me on fire
Mmm, my brain is flamin' I don't know which way to go
Your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky with burning love, Mmm

Ooh-hoo-hoo, I feel my temperature risin'
Help me I'm flamin', It must be a hundred and nine
Burnin', burnin', burnin' and nothing can cool me, Yeh
I just might turn to smoke but I feel fine
'Cos your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir
And you light my morning sky with burning love

It's comin' closer, the flames are now lickin' my body
Won't you help me I feel like I'm slippin' away
It's hard to breathe, my chest is a heavin'
Lord have mercy I'm burnin' the whole world away
Your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky with burning love

I'm just a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
A hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
A hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
A hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
A hunk, a hunk of burnin' love


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* Good Luck Charm
(Aaron Schroeder - Wally Gold)

Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Oh yeh!
Don't want a four leaf clover
Don't want an old horse shoe
Want your kiss 'cause I just can't miss
With a good luck charm like you

* Come on and be my little good luck charm
Uh-huh huh, you sweet delight
I want a good luck charm a-hanging on my arm
To have, to have, to hold, to hold tonight

Don't want a silver dollar
Rabbit's foot on a string
The happiness in your warm caress
No rabbit's foot can bring

* Repeat
Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Oh yeh!
Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Tonight!

If I found a lucky penny
I'd toss it across the bay
Your love is worth all the gold on earth
No wonder that I say

* Repeat
Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Oh yeh!
Uh-huh huh, Uh-huh huh, Tonight!


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* Wooden Heart (Muss i denn)
(Wise - Weisman - Twomey - Kaemfert)

Can't you see
I love you
Please don't break my heart in two
That's not hard to do
'Cause I don't have a wooden heart
And if you say goodbye
Then I know that I would cry
Maybe I would die
'Cause I don't have a wooden heart
There's no strings upon this love of mine
It was always you from the start
Treat me nice
Treat me good
Treat me like you really should
'Cause I'm not made of wood
And I don't have a wooden heart

* Muss i denn, muss i denn
Zum Stadtele hinaus
Stadtele hinaus
Und du, mein schat, bleibst hier?

* Repeat

There's no strings upon this love of mine
It was always you from the start
Sei mir gut
Sei mir gut
Sei mir wie du wirk'lich sollst
Wie du wirk'lich sollst
'Cause I don't have a wooden heart


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* Return To Sender
(Blackwell / Scott)

Return to sender, return to sender

I gave a letter to the postman
He put it in his sack
Bright an' early next morning
He brought my letter back

She wrote upon it
Return to sender
Address unknown
No such number
No such zone

We had a quarrel, a lovers spat
I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back
So then I dropped it in the mail box and sent it Special D
Bright an' early next morning it come right back to me

She wrote upon it
Return to sender
Address unknown
No such person
No such zone

This time I'm gonnna take it myself
And put it right in her hand
And if it comes back the very next day
Then I'll understand

The writing on it
Return to sender
Address unknown
No such number
No such zone

Return to sender, return to sender, return to sender, return to sender


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* Bossa Nova Baby
(Leiber / Stoller)

I said take it easy baby I work all day
And my feet feel just like lead
You got my shirt tail flying all over the place
And the sweat poppin' out of my head

She said hey bossa nova baby keep on workin'
For this ain't no time to quit
She said go bossa nova baby keep on dancin'
I'm about to have myself a fit

Bossa nova, Bossa nova

I said hey little momma, let's sit down
Have a drink and dig the band
She said drink, drink, drink, oh fiddle-de-dee
I can dance with a drink in my hand

She said hey bossa nova baby keep on workin'
For this ain't no time to drink
She said go bossa nova baby keep on dancin'
'Cos I ain't got time to think

Bossa nova, Bossa nova

I said come on baby it's hot in here
And it's oh so cool outside
If you lend me a dollar I can buy some gas
And we can go for a little ride
She said hey bossa nova baby keep on workin'
For I ain't got time for that
She said go bossa nova baby keep on dancin'
Or I'll find myself another cat

Bossa nova, Bossa nova

Bossa nova, Bossa nova

Bossa nova, Bossa nova


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