Slow Boat to China

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