On a Slow Boat to China

Hey, nice piano playin', Manilla

Thank you, Miss M

Whatcha doin' these days?

Makin' records

Really?

Yes, really

Do you still play piano for people?

Well, depends on who

Hmm, I'm gonna get you

On a slow boat to China

All to myself alone

Get you and keep you

In my arms evermore

Leave all the others

Waitin' on a faraway shore

Out on the briny

Where the moon's

Big and shiny

Meltin' your heart of stone

I'm gonna get you

On a slow boat to China

All to myself alone

Bette, I didn't know

You felt that way about me

I don't, I need a piano player

Ah, just like the old days

You're not gonna change keys

On me are yah? Uh huh, oh

I'm gonna get you

(You're never gonna get me)

On a slow boat to China

(Not in a fast or slow boat at any crick)

All to myself alone

(I just get motion sick)

I'm gonna make you mine

(Ha, you'll have to stand in line)

Get you and keep you

In my band evermore

(Now there's a new attack)

Leave all the others on the shore

(For me they'd swim to China)

(To China and back)

Out on the briny

(I wouldn't like the ocean)

Where the moon's big and shiny

(Not even in a rowboat)

Melting your heart of stone

Come on what do yah say?

(You always get your way)

I'm gonna get you

On a slow boat to China

All to myself alone, together

All to myself alone