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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
