I played around in
Chinatown, passin' the time away
When blackjack red hit me on the head,
when I woke up next day
I was many miles away
I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter,
I was shanghaied and I ain't no sailor
I was
Shanghai on an ocean freighter,
I want to get back to shore, back to the
Gulf
Coast shore.
They threw me off in old
Hong
Kong and put me on my own, not a penny in my pocket,
ten thousand miles from home.
And that's a mighty long way from home.
Ž I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter
Ž
I was shanghaied and I ain't no sailor
Ž
I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter
Ž
I wanna get back to shore
Ž
Back to the
Gold
Coast shore
Ž
Pick it baby!
Ž
I worked for grub on an old
dutch tub and wound up in
L .A.
When a pretty little girl took me on a whirl,
when I woke up next day, when I woke up next
day.
I was shanghaied for the rest of my life,
I was shanghaied, but that's alright, I was
shanghaied.
Got a pretty little wife and nev
er leaving home no more
Never leaving home no more
Shake my hand, shake my hand,
shake my hand
Shake hand, shake my hand, shake my hand