Shanghaied

(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...