Across the South China Sea

 

F                     G7                           C                Am

I’d like to take you back again across the South China Sea

F                G7                           F            G7                     F               G7                     

Buy you some pearls to wear, buy you some silk to wear, buy you some flowers to wear

C                              Am

that would be my Asian dream

F                   G7                         C                  Am

but here I am in Hong Kong again missing you every hour

F                     G7                          F               G7                          F                    G7                   

I bought you some pearls to wear, bought you some silk to wear only wish that you were here

C                                 Am

to wear the flowers in you hair

           F    G7                            C    F                        G7                         C                 

Don’t like being on my own in China life isn’t bright when I’m not with you

F                                                      

Take all the lights from Hong Kong Harbour

C                                            Am        F              G7                             C

String them to the moon and a little further life isn’t bright when I’m not with you.

 

F                      G7                    C            Am

Then I’d take you to the west again to old Singapore

              F                        G7           F              G7                         F                G                                 

We could see the Raffles hotel see a new skyscraper as well we could go out on the town

C                               Am

there’s plenty besides to do

 F                              G7                          C                     Am             

but here I am in the Sea View Hotel where the aircon cools the tropical night

         F                        G7 F                                 G7                      F                          G7                            

I’ve seen the Raffles Hotel I’m in this new skyscraper as well didn’t bother to go out on the town

C                                   Am

Well what’s the fun without you

           F          G7        C           F                         G7                   C                     

Here I am in Malaysia where the peoples faces have just got to be seen

F                                                  

The Sun is warm and the rain is too

C                            Am                           F          G7                         C 

you can keep your hotels and your high living too I’m not living till I’m back with you

 

F           G7               C             Am           

Then I’d take you away again to the Philippines 

           F                   G7                  F                         G7                     F                         G7              

We could take a Jeepnee down we could take a tricycle down we could take a taxi down

C                                  Am

to some place besides a beech

F                 G7                          C                 Am

Here I am in Manila harbour where the sunset’s just got to be seen

          F            G7                    F                 G7                    F               G7         

I’ve taken a Jeepnee down I’ve taken the Love Bus down take a 747 down

C                          Am

meet me on the beech

          F                          G7                                                   C               F G7C            

Here I am with the business men of metro If I gave them your smile they sell it to the world

F                                         

wrap it all up in little red boxes

C                       Am                     F                G7                              C  

it would solve their economic crisis I’m having a crisis while I’m not with you

 

 

 

 

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ISWC T-011.367.838-8             MCPS/PRS London Tune Code  6686769L          Written Clarke 1983

 

Sound Recording on the Album 'Songs of Hello and Good Bye' By Almond Greenway

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