John Prine – Slow Boat To China (Guitar)

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Let's take a slow boat to China,

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leave from South Carolina

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Let's take our time and go the long way

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On a junk boat to Thailand

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with your hand in mine hand

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Well, I sure hope we got something to say

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This old boat's got no sail

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so won't you please hold our mail for awhile

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Thanks anyway, pal, but the Suez Canal

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Ain't our style

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Let's take a slow boat to China

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and maybe we'll find a

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New way to play those same old games

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The stars just might show us

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and the captain will know us

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Shake our hands and call us by our first names

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We'll send a postcard to grandpa

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of a vase or rickshaw, he don't care

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We'll buy mom a kimono

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or maybe we'll just phone her

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When we're there

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We'll drink sake at night

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beneath the soft harbor lights on the bay

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We'll build house on the hill

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next to Shangri-La Bill, and we'll stay

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Let's take that slow boat to China

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Slow boat to China

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Slow boat to China

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Slow boat to China

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Let's go real slow