On A Slow Boat To China

by Frank Loesser

from the album Somewhere Over China

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Lyrics

I’d love to get you
On a slow boat to China
All to myself alone

Get you and keep you
In my arms ever more
Leave all your lovers
Weepin’ on a far away shore

Out on the briny
With the moon big and shiny
Melting your heart of stone
Honey I’d love to get you
On a slow boat to China
All by myself alone

Instrumental

I’d love to get ya
On a slow boat to China
All to myself alone

A twist in the rudder
And a rip in the sails
Drifting and dreamin’
Honey throw the compass over the rail

Out on the ocean
Far from all the commotion
Melting your heart of stone
Honey I’d love to get you
On a slow boat to China
All to myself alone

Jimmy’s Note:

These darn songs that take me off to China. I am hooked on the place. I guess Marco Polo started the whole damn thing. One day, I will get there and I hope there is still a slow boat to take me there.

To Spike Jones and the City Slickers and Darlene Vare