Viva las vegas Chords

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Viva las vegas by ZZ Top is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, B7, Em, C, A7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G 
Bright light city gonna set my soul 
G 
Gonna set my soul on fire 
G 
Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn 
G 
So get those stakes up higher 
 
        B7 Em                    Em 
There's a  thousand pretty women waitin' out there 
Em 
And they're all livin'  devil may care 
Em 
And I'm just the devil with love to spare 
C        G      C        G 
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas 
 
G 
How I wish that there were more 
G 
Than the twenty four hours in the day 
G 
Cos even if there wore many more 
G 
I wouldn't sleep a minute away 
 
G 
Oh, there's black jack and poker and the roulette wheel 
G 
A fortune won and lost on ev'ry deal 
C 
Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' 
                         G 
and your one arm bandits crashin' all your hope right down the drain 
 
C 
Viva Las Vegas turning day into night time 
C 
turning night into daytime 
C      A7                                   D7 
If you see it once you'll never be the same again 
 
    G  D7 G 
I'm gonna keep on the run, I'm gonna have me some fun 
G 
And if it costs me my very last dime 
G                                                                    B7 
If I wind up broke, well, I'll always remember I had a swinging time 
 
Em 
I'm gonna give it ev'ry thing I've got 
Em 
Lady luck, please let the dice stay hot 
Em 
Let me shoot a seven with ev'ry shot 
 
C        G      C        G      C        G      C    D7       G 
Viva Las Vegas, viva Las Vegas, viva Las Vegas, viva viva Las Vegas. 
  
 
    
 

    	

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