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Slow Boat To China
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John Prine
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Let's take a slow boat to china. 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 with your hand in mine hand
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I sure hope we got something to say
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Well, this old boat's go no sail so won't you please hold our mail-
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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 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 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 of a vase or rickshaw-
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He don't care
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We'll buy mom a kimono 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 beneath the soft harbor lights-
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On the bay
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We'll build house on the hill next to shangri-li bill -
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And we'll stay
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Let's take that slow boat to china (let's go)
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Slow boat to china (real slow)
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Slow boat to china (let's go)
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Slow boat to china (real slow)
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Let's go real slow
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