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Lyr Add: On a Slow Boat to China (and parody)
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Subject: Lyr Add: ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (Frank Loesser) From: Jim Dixon Date: 28 Jul 08 - 12:18 AM First, the original: ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA Frank Loesser New York: Melrose Music Corp., 1948. I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China, All to myself alone, Get you and keep you in my arms evermore, Leave all your lovers weeping on the faraway shore, Out on the briny with the moon big and shiny, Melting your heart of stone. I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China, All to myself alone. |
Subject: Lyr Add: ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (Homer & Jethro) From: Jim Dixon Date: 28 Jul 08 - 12:20 AM Now here's the parody, from the "video" at YouTube: ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA As sung by Homer & Jethro I'd like to get you on a slow boat to China, All by myself alone. Your face that only your mother adored. If you come near me, there's gonna be a girl overboard. Out on the ocean, if you take a notion You'd like to be my own, You take a slow boat and I'll take a rowboat Back to my home sweet home. I'd like to put you on a slow boat to China, All by yourself alone. You may get seasick, but go anyway, 'Cause you'll make me sick if you miss the boat and you stay. Out on the briny between here and Chiny, You may get lost at sea. Maybe a tanker will throw you an anchor. If so, will you thank her for me? |
Subject: Lyr Add: SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (John Prine, Whitlock) From: Jim Dixon Date: 26 Dec 21 - 03:31 PM This would be a good place to put this similarly-titled song: SLOW BOAT TO CHINA Written by John Prine, Bobby Whitlock, & Linda Whitlock As recorded by John Prine on “Aimless Love” (1984) [A] Let's take a slow boat to China, Leave from South Carolina. Let's take our time and go the long way. On a junk boat to Thailand With your hand in my hand, We’ll sure hope we got something to say. [B] Well, this old boat's got no sail, So won't you please hold our mail For a while? Thanks anyway, pal, But the Suez Canal Ain't our style. [A] Let's take a slow boat to China And maybe we'll find a New way to play those same old games. The stars just might show us, And the captain will know us, Shake our hands and call us by our first names. [B] Send a postcard to Grandpa Of a vase or rickshaw; He don't care. We'll buy Mom a kimono Or maybe we'll just phone her When we're there. [A] INSTRUMENTAL BREAK [B] We'll drink sake at night Beneath the soft harbor lights On the bay. We'll build a house on the hill Next to Shangri-La Bill And we'll stay. [DUET] Let's take that slow boat to China, (Let's go) Slow boat to China, (Real slow.) Slow boat to China, (Let's go) Slow boat to China. (Real slow.) Let's go Real slow. Let's go Real slow. Let's go Real slow. [REPEAT DUET AND FADE.] |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: On a Slow Boat to China (and parody) From: leeneia Date: 27 Dec 21 - 10:18 AM This is how I remember it from the radio, Jim. 'd love to get you on a slow boat to China, All to myself alone, Get you and keep you in my arms evermore, Leave all your lovers weeping on the faraway shore, Out on the briny with the moon big and shiny, I'd melt your heart of stone. I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China, All to myself alone. Wish you, wish you, wish you were here. [go up a half-step] Wish you, wish you, wish you were here. Out on the briny with the moon big and shiny, I'd melt your heart of stone. I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China, All to myself alone. ========== This song is fun to sing, and I wish it had another verse, but I guess Frank Loesser had said all he wanted to say. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: On a Slow Boat to China (and parody) From: GUEST Date: 27 Dec 21 - 07:58 PM (Bad taste warning) "I'd love to put you in a row boat to China All by yourself alone Rotted to the core and only got one oar Loaded with a few tons of stone or more When it goes down, then you'll surely drown Too far to swim for the shore I'd like to put you on a row boat to China Farewell to my Mother-in-Law" Got this many years ago from a Korean War veteran who heard it while on active service, back when paying out on Mothers-in-Law was acceptable humour, unless of course you happened to be one! Probably written for a camp entertainment show. There was another verse about a "... plane to China...", but I can't read it as it is faded badly. Lucky the above verse survived...or maybe not! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: On a Slow Boat to China (and parody) From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 27 Dec 21 - 08:43 PM Thank You. It HAD to be somewhere. Nice contribution to the MC. Sincerely, Gargoyle A personal dive into rugby and h3 search produced - nada. |
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