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Slow Boat To China
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John Prine
жанры: folk, country
альбомы: Aimless Love
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Let's take a slow boat to China Leave from South Carolina Let's take our time and go the long wayOn a junk boat to Thailand With your hand in mine hand We're sure hope we got something to sayWell, this old boat's go no sail So won't you please hold our mail For a whileBut thanks anyway pal But the Suez Canal Ain't our styleLet's take a slow boat to China And maybe we'll find a New way to play those same old gamesThe stars just might show us And the Captain will know us Shake our hands and call us By our first namesWe'll send a postcard to Grandpa Of a vase or rickshaw He don't careWe'll buy Mom a Kimono Or maybe we'll just phone her When we're thereWe'll drink Saki at night Beneath the soft harbor lights On the bayWe'll build house on the hill Next to Shangrila Bill And we'll stayLet's take that slow boat to China (Let's go) Slow boat to China (Real slow)Slow boat to China (Let's go) Slow boat to China (Real slow)Let's go real slow Let's go real slow Let's go real slowWe get a slow boat to China (Let's go) Slow boat to China (Real slow)Slow boat to China (Let's go) Slow boat to China (Real slow)Let's go real slow Let's go real slow
Это интересно:Prine is the son of William Prine and Verna Hamm. Prine himself started playing guitar at age 14, taught by his brother, David. He was a postman for five years and served in the Army before beginning his musical career in Chicago.In the late 1960s, while Prine was still delivering mail in Maywood, Illinois, he began to sing at open-mic evenings at the Fifth Peg on Armitage Avenue. Prine was initially a spectator, reluctant to perform, but eventually did so in response to a "You think you can do better?" comment made to him by another performer. Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert heard him there and wrote the first review Prine ever received, calling him a great songwriter.... продолжение
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