JUKEBOX TOUR SONGBOOK
ELVIS ~ SIXTIES ~ MOTOWN ~ SECOND HALF
FIFTIES

OPENING (50's):
Twisting The Night Away
At The Hop
Johnny B Goode
Rockin' Robin
The Great Pretender
Only You
Mr Sandman
That'll Be The Day
Great Balls of Fire
Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay
Unchained Melody

Well let me tell you 'bout a place
Somewhere way out New York way
Where the people are so gay
Twisting the night away

Here they have a lot of fun
putting troubles on the run
Everybody old and young

Twistin the night away
Twistin twistin
Everybody's feeling great
They're twistin twistin
Yeah twistin the night away

Here's a man in evening clothes
How he got here I don't know
Man, you ought to see him go,
Twistin the night away
dancing with the chick in slacks
She's movin up and back
Man, there ain't nothing like
Twistin the night away

Twistin the night away
Twistin twistin
Everybody's feeling great
They're twistin twistin
Yeah twistin the night away
Let's twist awhile!
Yeah twistin the night away
They're twistin twistin
Everybody's feeling great
They're twistin twistin twistin the night away

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Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah
Bah-bah-bah-bah. bah-bah-bah-bah, at the hop!
Well, you can rock it, you can roll it
You can stomp it, you can stroll it at the hop
When the record starts spinnin'
You *chalypso* when you chicken at the hop
Do the dance sensation
that is sweepin' the nation at the hop
Ah, let's go to the hop
Let's go to the hop, (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop, (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop
Come on, let's go to the hop

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Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
Stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Good
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like ringing a bell

Go, go, go Johnny go, go, go Johnny, go go
Go Johnny go, go, go Johnny go go
Johnny B. Good

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Tweedlele deeedlele dee
Tweedlele deeedlele dee
Tweedlele deeedlele dee
Tweet tweet tweet tweet

He rocks in the tree-top all a day long
Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' the song
All the little birds on J-Bird St.
Love to hear the robin goin' tweet tweet tweet
[Chorus]

Rockin' robin (tweet tweet tweet)
Rockin' robin (tweet tweet tweet)
Oh rockin' robin well you really gonna rock tonight
Rocking robin tweet tweet

- - -

Oh yes I'm the great pretender
Pretending that I'm doing well
My need is such
I pretender too much
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around

- - -

Only you can make this world seem right
Only you can make the darkness bright
When you hold my hand
I understand the magic that you do
You're my dream come true
My one and only you

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Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen
Give him two lips like roses and clover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over

Sandman, (YES...??) I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beams
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream

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Well that'll be the day
When you say goodbye.
Yeah that'll be the day
When you make me cry.
You say you wanna leave,
You know it's a lie
'cos that'll be the day
When I die.

Well you gave me all your loving
And all your turtle doving,
All your hugs and kisses
And your money too.
Well You know I love you baby,
Still you tell me maybe
That 'll be the day that I'll be through.
Well that'll be the day
When you say goodbye.
That'll be the day
When you make me cry.
You say you wanna leave,
You know it's a lie
'Cos that'll be the day
That I die.

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You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much of love drives a man insane
You broke my will, but what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

I laughed at love 'cause I thought it was funny
You came along and moved me honey
I changed my mind, looking fine
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

kiss me baby, wooooooo..... feels good
Hold me baby, I want to love you like a lover should
You're fine, so kind
I'm a tell this world that your mine mine mine mine

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Ah ah ah oh baby
Ah ah ah oh baby
Ah ah ah oh baby
Rock and Roll is here to stay
It will never die
It was meant to be that way
Though I don't know why
I don't care what people say
Rock n roll is here to stay
We don't care what people say
Rock and roll is here to stay
Ah ah let's go to the hop
Ah ah twistin the night away
Ah ah Goodness gracious great balls of fire
We don't care what people say
Rock and roll is here to stay!

Unchained melody banter

Oh, my love, my darling,
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time.
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love,
I need your love,
God speed your love to me!

Lonely rivers flow to the sea,
To the sea,
To the open arms of the sea.
Lonely rivers sigh,
"Wait for me, wait for me!"
I'll be coming home, wait for me

Oh, my love, my darling,
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time.
Time goes by, so slowly
And time can do so much,
Are you still mine?
I need your love,
I need your love,
God speed your love to me!

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ELVIS

ELVIS Set:
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Blue Suede Shoes
Don't Be Cruel
Heartbreak Hotel
Jailhouse Rock
I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
Suspicious Minds

Love me tender,
Love me sweet,
Never let me go.
You have made my life complete,
And I love you so.

Love me tender,
Love me true,
All my dreams fulfilled.
For my darling I love you,
And I always will.

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You ain't nothin but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin all the time
You ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine

- - -

Well it's one for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready now go cat go
But don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything but lay offa my blue suede shoes

- - -

You know I can be found
Sitting home all alone
If you can't come around
At least please telephone
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
Don't want no other love
Baby it's just you I thinkin of

- - -

Since my baby left me
I found a new place to dwell
Down at the end of lonely street
Heartbreak hotel
Well I'm so lonely baby
I'm so lonely
I'm so lonely I could die

- - -

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 dancin’ to the jailhouse rock
dancin' to the jailhouse rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock

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Wise men say only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you
Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can’t help falling in love with you

Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can’t help falling in love with you


We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much baby

Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds

So, if an old friend I know
Drops by to say hello
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?

Here we go again
Asking where I've been
You can't see these tears are real
I'm crying

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds

Oh let our love survive
Or dry the tears from your eyes
Let's don't let a good thing die
you know I've never lied to you
oh ohhhhhhh

We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much baby

Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
On suspicious minds..........

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SIXTIES

60's Set:
Daydream Believer
Downtown
Can't Buy Me Love
Sugar Sugar
Happy Together
Solitaire

Oh I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the buebird as she sings
Six o'clock alarm would never ring
But it rings and I rise
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
The shaving razor cold and it stings
Cheer up sleepy jean oh what can it mean
To a daydream believer and a homecoming queen

- - -

When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go
Downtown
When you've got problems all the noise and the hurry seems to help I know
Downtown
Just listen to music of the traffic in the city
Walk along the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles
Forget all your cares and go
Downtown
Things will be great when you're
Downtown
No finer place for sure
Downtown
Everyone's waiting for you
Downtown.... downtown....

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Can't buy me love
Love
Can't buy me love
Buy you a diamond ring my friend
If it makes you feel alright
Give you anything my friend
If it makes you feel all right
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love
Can't buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love
No no no no

- - -

Sugar oh honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you
Honey oh sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you
I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you
I just can't believe it's true
I just can't believe the wonder of this feeling too.
I just can't believe it's you

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Imagine me and you I do
I think about you day and night
It's only right
To think about the one girl love and hold her tight
So happy together
If I should call you up
Invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
And ease my mind
Imagine how the world would be
So very fine
So happy together
I can't see me loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me baby the skies will be blue
For all my life
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
So happy together

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(several versions - your mileage may vary)

There was a man, a lonely man
Who lost his love through his indifference
A heart that cared that went unshared
Until it died in his silence
And solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
And by himself it's easy to pretend
He'll never love again

And keeping to himself he plays the game
Without her love, it always ends the same
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire
Another day - a lonely day
So much to say that goes unspoken

And solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire

A little hope goes up in smoke
Just how it goes, goes without saying
Solitaire - aire - aire..........
And by himself it's easy to pretend
He'll never love again
Ohhhhhhhhhhh
And keeping to himself he plays the game
Without her love, it always ends the same
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire

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MOTOWN

Motown Set:
Where Did Our Love Go?
Midnight Train To Georgia
My Girl
Tears of a Clown
Rescue Me
Heard It Thru the Grapevine
I'll Be There
Think
Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Baby, baby,
Baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself

I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad

You came into my heart
Baby, Baby
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee

Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave me
Ooh, you wanna leave me

Ooh, Baby baby baby
Where did our love go?

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Barry Gordy speech

- - -

LA proved too much for the man
He couldn't take it,
so he's leavin' the life he's come to know
He said he's goin' back to find what's left of his world
The world he left behind not so long ago

He's leavin' on that midnight train to Georgia
Said he's goin' back to find the simpler place and time
And I'll be with him on that midnight train to Georgia
I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine

- - -

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside I've got the month of May
I guess you'll say what can make me feel this way
My girl
My girl talking about my girl
I've got so much honey the bees envy me
I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the tree
I guess you'll say what can make me feel this way
My girl

- - -

Now if there's a smile on my face
It's only there tryin' to fool the public
But when it comes down to losin' you
Now honey that's quite a different subject
So don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression
Cos really I'm sad
Oh I'm sadder than sad
You're gone and you hurt me so bad
Like a clown I appear to be glad
Ooh yeah
There's some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown
When there's no one around

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Rescue me
and take me in your arms
Rescue me
I want your tender charms
'Coz I'm lonely and I'm blue
I need you and your love too

Come on and rescue me
Come on baby and rescue me
Come on baby and rescue me
'Coz I need you, by my side
Can't you see that I'm lonely

Come on and take my heart
Take your love and conquer every part
'Coz I need you by my side
Can't you see that I'm lonely

- - -

I bet you're wondering how I knew.
Ah, what you're plans to make me blue.
With some other guy you knew before.
'tween two of us guys you know I love you more.

It took me by surprise I must say,
when I found out yesterday.
Don't you know that I heard it through the grapevine.
Not much longer would you be mine.
Don't you know that I heard it through the grapevine. yeah yeah yeah yeah
And I'm just about to lose my mind.

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Now if you feel that you can't go on
Because all of your hope is gone
And your life is filled with much confusion
And your happiness is just an illusion
And your world around is tumblin' down
Darling, reach out
Reach out, for me.
I'll be there to love and comfort you
I'll be there with the love I'll see you through

I'll be there to love and comfort you
I'll be there to with the love I'll see you through

- - -

Now if you feel that you can't go on
Because all of your hope is gone
And your life is filled with much confusion
And your happiness is just an illusion
And your world around is tumblin' down
Darling, reach out
Reach out, for me.
I'll be there to love and comfort you
I'll be there with the love I'll see you through

I'll be there to love and comfort you
I'll be there to with the love I'll see you through

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You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free

Let's go back, let's go back, let's go way on way back when
I didn't even know you, you came to me and too much you wouldn't take
I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degree
It don't take too much high IQ's to see what you're doing to me

You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free

Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, freedom

There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not, to keep doing things I don't

You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free

You need me (need me) and I need you (need you)
Without each other there ain't nothing people can do

Ahhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhh
THINK

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Pip search

- - -

So listen baby
Ain't no mountain high ain't no valley low
Ain't no river wide enough baby
If you need me call me
No matter where you are,
No matter how far (don't worry baby)
Just call my name.
'll be there in a hurry
You don't have to worry
Baby
There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you
Remember the day
I set you free
I told you could always count on me,darling
From that day on
I made a vow
I'll be there when you want me
Some way, somehow

Cause baby
There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe

No wind,
No rain,

Or winter's cold.
Can stop me baby.
No no baby
Cause you are my goal
If you're ever in trouble
I'll be there on the double
Just send for me
Oooh

There ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough,
To keep me from you
There ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough,
To keep me from you
There ain't no mountain high enough,
It can't keep me keep me from you
There ain't no mountain high enough,
It can't keep me keep me from you
Here ain't no mountain high enough

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