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Slow Boat To China

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John Prine (born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois-died April 7, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American country/folk singer-songwriter who has achieved widespread critical (and some commercial) success since the early 1970s.

The son of William Prine and Verna Hamm, his grandfather had played guitar with Merle Travis and he started playing guitar himself at 14 years old. He was a postman for 5 years and spent a couple of years in the army before starting his musical career in the Chicago area.

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“Slow Boat To China”
by John Prine, Bobby Whitlock, and Linda Whitlock

[Introduction]
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[Verse]
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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

[Verse]
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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

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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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

[Outro]
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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