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Mel Tillis Lyrics for Song: Shanghaied
 Lyrics for Album: The Best of Mel Tillis: The Columbia Years [Collec [2004]
 
 
 
 29350>(Mel Tillis - Marijohn Wilkin)
 
 
 
 I've played around in China town passing time away
 
 When Black Jack Red hit me in the head
 
 And when I woke up next day
 
 I was many miles away.
 
 
 
 I was shanghied on an ocean freighter
 
 I was shanghied eatin' beans and tater
 
 I was shanghied on an ocean freighter
 
 And I wanna get back to shore
 
 Back to the go go show.
 
 
 
 They'd throwed me off in old Hong Kong
 
 And put me on my own
 
 Not a penny in my pockets, ten thousand miles from home
 
 And that's a mighty long way from home.
 
 
 
 And I was shanghied in old Hong Kong
 
 I was shanghied I was all alone
 
 I was shanghied I wanna get back home
 
 Back to the go go show
 
 Back to the go go show.
 
 
 
 Well, I worked for my grub on an old dirt stub
 
 And I wound up in LA
 
 Where a pretty little girl took me on a whirl
 
 And when I woke up next day
 
 When I woke up next day.
 
 
 
 I was shanghied for the rest of my my life
 
 I was shanghied but that's alright
 
 I was shanghied I got a pretty little wife
 
 And I'm never leaving home no more
 
 I'm never leaving home no more...
 
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| Album Lyrics: The Best of Mel Tillis: The Columbia Years [Collec [2004] |  
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 "The Best of Mel Tillis: The Columbia Years [Collec [2004]"
 
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