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On A Slow Boat To China

Words and Music by Frank Loesser - 1948

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1948, played for 16 weeks.

Chorus:
Bb        Dm7	G7	Cm	C#dim
Bb	D7	Eb       Cm	Fm       G7
Cm	C#dim	Bb       D+	G7
C7       Gm7	C9	Cm7    F9	-
Bb        Dm7	G7	Cm	C#dim
Bb	D7	Eb       Cm	Fm       G7
Cm7	Ab7      A7	Bb       Ab7	G+       G7
C7	Cm7     B7	Bb	(Cm7   F9   Repeat)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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I'd like to get you On A Slow Boat To China,

All to myself, alone.

Get you and keep you in my arms evermore,

Leave all your lovers Weeping on the faraway shore.

Out on the briny with a moon big and shiny,

Melting your heart of stone,

I'd like to get you On A Slow Boat To China,

All to myself alone.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Listen to the San Francisco Medicine Ball Band perform "Slowboat To China" (youtube, timestamp 14:00)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com