Shanghied

Lyrics

I've played around in Chinatown passing the time away When Black Jack Red hit me in the head And when I woke up the next day I was many miles away I was shanghaied, on an ocean freighter I was shanghaied, eating beans and taters I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter And I wanna get back to shore Back to the Gold Coast shore They 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 I was shanghaied, in old Hong Kong I was shanghaied, I was all alonе I was shanghaied, I wanna get back home Back to thе Gold Coast shore Back to the Gold Coast shore I worked for my grub on an old Dutch tub and wound up in LA When a pretty little girl took me on a whirl And when I woke up the next day When I woke up the next day I was shanghaied, for the rest of my life I was shanghaied, but that's alright I was shanghaied, I got a pretty little wife I'm never leaving home no more I'm never leaving home no more