Intro
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#1.
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I played around in Chinatown, just a-passin'
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time away..when Black Jack Red hit me in the head.
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And when I woke up next day, I was many miles
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away.
CHORUS:
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I was shanghied on an ocean freighter.
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I was shanghied eatin' beans and taters.
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I was shanghied on an ocean freighter.
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And I wanna get back to shore, back to the Gold
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Coast shore.
#2.
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They throwed me off in old Hong Kong, put me on
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my own.
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Not a penny in my pocket, ten thousand miles from
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home..that's a mighty long way from home.
CHORUS:
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I was shanghied in old Hong Kong.
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I was shanghied, I was all alone.
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I was shanghied, wanna get back home.
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Back to the Gold Coast shore, back to the Gold
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Coast shore.
#3.
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I worked for grub on an old Dutch tub, and wound up
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in L.A.
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When a pretty little girl took me on a whirl and
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when I woke up next day, when I woke up next day.
CHORUS:
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I was shanghied for the rest of my life.
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I was shanghied, but that's all right.
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I was shanghied, got a pretty little wife.
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And I'm never leavin' home no more, never leavin'
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home no more.
OUTRO:
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Never leavin' home no more.
A# sixties smash from Kraziekhat.