Stan Cooper
Cartoon by Don Hunt
SITES ON LAS VEGAS STRIP
The urge to erect this awesome production
Was an urge no one could stifle
Tourists are kept in awesome seduction
By this Tower known as the Eiffel
No name describes it much better
In Paris it’s quite a big eyeful
Parisian quite to the letter
No Parisian considers it trifle
New York New York, the Empire State
Is home to lucky New Yawkers
As tourists, they to Vegas migrate
Turn into Strip-sighting gawkers
Gotham City’s’ tall skyscrapers
And the Statue of Liberty, too
Delight the New Yawker gapers
Who revel at their Big Apple view
A short distance away, believe it or not
One can see a great roaring lion
It’s the MGM Lion making claim to his spot
A spot well worth keeping an eye on
The Wizard of Oz might have whizzed up this scene
Just to keep all the tourists ogling
The building is shown in such beautiful green
It’s beauty is truly mind boggling
And where but the desert could you see a Mirage
The mirage full of watery fountains
Its loveliness attracts a tourist barrage
In this desert surrounded by mountains
Where else could be found white tigers
In desert with volcanoes spewing
Neither the Congo or the Niger
Have comparable sights for viewing
“See the pyramid along the Nile”
A lyric befitting the Strip
Since the Luxor’s Egyptian style
Brings the Sphinx to your Vegas trip
King Arthur’s knights, with table round
Excalibur displays their lore
On the Strip, Camelot is found
With castles and heroes galore
Take the road to Mandalay
Or play at The Monte Carlo
Delight in the Strip’s array
Of sites, Las Vegas has borrowed
In the wondrous Aladdin package
From a bottle, watch a genie pop out
When you whisk through the Desert Passage
No longer will you a genie doubt
Hooray for the site known as Harrahs
Not too far from the birdy Flamingo
There’s even an Imperial Palace
Where is spoken some Japanese lingo
Take in the games of the Roman Empire
With Anthony and Emperor Caesar
What greater goal could one ever aspire
Than to be Cleopatra’s pleaser
Reproducing Chapel Sistine
The Venetian shows its admiration
For his beauteous ceiling pristine
Michelangelo earned veneration
Visit the place of dark booties
Found at the Treasure Island village
With its richness and pirated loot-ies
Those sea robbers managed to pillage
The Bellagio at Como Lake
Mountain town, beautifully alpine
In Vegas now has a namesake
As befits the finest of fine
Exquisite sounds of music are heard
While showers of waters dance
To strains of opera or Beethoven’s third
These fountains with music entrance
Pay a visit to Wynn, where you’ll surely not lose
Enjoy its exquisite décor
If it’s beauty and elegance that you enthuse
Wynn’s grandeur will keep you in awe
Come to this gambling Mecca Strip
Plan on a great Vegas stay
It surely is a wondrous trip
Seeing the world in a day
©Copyright February 2007 by Stan Cooper
Cartoon ©Copyright October 2000 by Donald Hunt