On a Slow Boat to China Songtext
von Rosemary Clooney

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.