My 10 year-old brain was overjoyed to read this songs lyrics. I thought it was ‘beer’ not silk. I had a notion, to cross an the ocean, that I never crossed before. I thought for certain that Asia I’d reach. Now something tells me I’ve hit the wrong beach. No beer is sold here, there ain’t no gold here. Just rain, and disease galore… Sadly, that was all I remembered until asking this question online 60 years later thanks everybody?!… What, me worry??