Mel Tillis "Shanghaied" |
(Mel Tillis - Marijohn Wilkin) I've played around in China town passing time away When Black Jack Red hit me in the head And when I woke up next day I was many miles away. I was shanghied on an ocean freighter I was shanghied eatin' beans and tater I was shanghied on an ocean freighter And I wanna get back to shore Back to the go go show. They'd throwed me off in old Hong Kong And put me on my own Not a penny in my pockets, ten thousand miles from home And that's a mighty long way from home. And I was shanghied in old Hong Kong I was shanghied I was all alone I was shanghied I wanna get back home Back to the go go show Back to the go go show. Well, I worked for my grub on an old dirt stub And I wound up in LA Where a pretty little girl took me on a whirl And when I woke up next day When I woke up next day. I was shanghied for the rest of my my life I was shanghied but that's alright I was shanghied I got a pretty little wife And I'm never leaving home no more I'm never leaving home no more... Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |