On A Slow Boat To China lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bette Midler
Album: Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook

Lyrics

(Feat. barry manilow)

[Bette:] "hey, nice piano playin', manilla."
[Barry:] "thank you, miss m."
[Bette:] "whatcha doin' these days?"
[Barry:] "makin' records."
[Bette:] "really?"
[Barry:] "yes, really."
[Bette:] "do you still play piano for people?"
[Barry:] "well, depends on who."

[Bette:] hmmm, 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

[Bette & barry:] out on the briny
Where the moon's big and shiny
Melting your heart of stone
I'm gonna get you
On a slow boat to china
All to myself alone

[Barry:] "bette, I didn't know you felt that way about me."
[Bette:] "i don't. I need a piano player."
[Barry:] "ahh, just like the old days!"
[Bette:] "you're not gonna change keys on me, are ya?"
[Barry:] "unh huh."
[Bette:] "ohhh!"

[Bette:] I'm gonna get you
[Barry:] you're never gonna get me
[Bette:] on a slow boat to china
[Barry:] not in a fast or slow boat to any crick
[Bette:] all to myself alone;
[Barry:] I just get motion sick
[Bette:] I'm gonna make you mine
[Barry:] ha, you'll have to stand in line
[Bette:] get you and keep you in my band evermore;
[Barry:] now there's a new attack
[Bette:] leave all the others on the shore
[Barry:] for me they'd swim to china, to china and back

[Bette:] out on the briny
[Barry:] I wouldn't like the ocean
[Bette:] where the moon's big and shiny
[Barry:] not even in a rowboat
[Bette:] melting your heart of stone
Come on, what do you say?
[Barry:] ha ha, you always get your way
[Bette & barry:] I'm gonna get you
On a slow boat to china
All to myself alone, to-ge-ther
All to myself alone

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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