China My China

song: china my china

album:taking tiger mountain (1974)



          C                                                                          A/F 

A-F 4 times)

In the haze of the morning, China sits on eternity

               C                                                                         

              A/F

And the opium farmers sell dreams to obscure fraternities

G                               A#                   A

On the horizon the curtains are closing

C                                                                                        

                    A/F

Down in the orchard, the aunties and uncles play their games

             A            F                   A        F

(Like it seems they always have done)

C                                                                                        

          A/F

In the blue distance, the vertical offices bear their names

              A           F                    A        F

(Like it seems they always have done)

G                                     A#                 A

Clocks ticking slowly, dividing the day up.

C

These poor girls are such fun,

                                                                                      A/F

They know what God gave them their fingers for

                 A          F        A            F

(to make percussion over so-los) [typing percussion]

C                                                                                        

               A/F

China, my China, I've wandered around and you're still here

                A                 F                 A         F

(Which I guess you should be proud of)

         C

Your walls have enclosed you,



Have kept you at home for thousands of years

                      A         F                   A        F

(But there's something I should tell you)

G                                                A#                    A

All the young boys, they are dressing like sailors.

C

I remember a man who

                                                                         A/F

Jumped out from a window over the bay

                       A     F    A                 F

(There was hardly a raised eyebrow)

C

The coroner told me,

                                                                   A/F

This kind of thing happens every day.

G                                                    A#                  A

You see, from the Pagoda, the world is so tidy.

   done by ketty inglet