Lyrics to
The Love Machine

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Step right up to the love machine
You may get lucky when you zap a dream
Let the wheel go round, round and round
You may win that girl you’ve never found

She may be Suzy or Maybelline
She could be Cathy or Angeline
Let the wheel go round, round and round
Try your luck right now on the love machine

We’re just a bunch of salty sailors
One thing on our mind
Takin’ a chance on this machine
Maybe love we’ll find
She maybe tall she maybe short
She may be wide
But Lady Luck stop that wheel
On 38-24-35
Step up, whose next in line
This love machine don’t waste no time

Let the wheel go round, round and round
What will your fortune be on the love machine
All right

We’re just a bunch of salty sailors
One thing on our mind
Takin’ a chance on this machine
Maybe love we’ll find
She maybe tall she maybe short
She may be wide
But Lady Luck stop that wheel
On 38-24-35
Step up, whose next in line
This love machine don’t waste no time

Let the wheel go round and round and round
And round and round and round and round
What will your fortune be on the love machine

What will your fortune be on the love machine

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Elvis Presley has released many songs over the years besides The Love Machine. Elvis Presley released songs from 1956 to 2003 spanning across albums like Elvis '56, Elvis Presley, Loving You, Elvis' Christmas Album, Jailhouse Rock, Elvis' Golden Records, King Creole, 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, A Date With Elvis, For LP Fans Only, G.I. Blues, Elvis Is Back!, His Hand In Mine, Blue Hawaii, Something For Everybody, Pot Luck, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3, It Happened At The World's Fair, Fun In Acapulco, Kissin' Cousins, Roustabout, Harum Scarum, Girl Happy, Elvis For Everyone, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Spinout, Frankie And Johnny, Clambake, Double Trouble, How Great Thou Art, Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4, Elvis (NBC TV Special), Speedway, Back In Memphis, From Elvis In Memphis, Elvis Sings Flaming Star, Elvis In Person At The International Hotel, Almost In Love, Let's Be Friends, That's The Way It Is, On Stage, C'mon Everybody, Love Letters From Elvis, Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old), I Got Lucky, Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas, He Touched Me, Elvis: As Recorded At Madison Square Garden, Elvis Now, Elvis '73, Raised On Rock / For Ol' Times Sake, Aloha From Hawaii: Via Satellite, Elvis: As Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis, Good Times, Today, Promised Land, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee, Moody Blue, ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits, and ELVIIS: 2nd to None. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Elvis Presley.

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Love Machine, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Elvis Presley. Some of the lyrics to The Love Machine have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Elvis Presley and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Love Machine if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Love Machine" means the words set to the music of The Love Machine, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elvis Presley. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Love Machine and the lyrics to The Love Machine are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elvis Presley who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Love Machine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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