Shanghai'd In Shanghi Lyrics - Nazareth

Standing on a corner in downtown l.a. 

Waiting for the man to come along 

She comes up to me and says " too bad, too sad" 

You know that he's been dead and gone. 

L.a. lady, kinda shady 

She picked him up and took him home 

I woke up groggy my sight was smoggy 

And I knew that it had been blown 

Early in the morning sitting in a hotel 

Moscow's looking fine through the wine 

Spaced out I crashed out 

When the k.g.b. came on the line. 

It's a cold one, bein' sent down 

It's gotta be fifty below 

Mama here's a postcard to let you know 

I'm in a saltmine and looking for coal 

Shanghai'd in shanghai 

Stood on in tuscon 

Ripped off and kicked right out the bed 

Flyin' across the desert from texas to tuscon 

But we're headed for a southern star 

The captain says it's fine in havana 

This dude behind me needs a cigar. 

He's a big one, he's got a big gun 

I guess we better go along 

Mister we've got a gig in arizona 

Second billing to the rolling stones 

Shanghai'd in shanghai 

Stood on in tuscon 

Ripped off and kicked right out the bed 

Shanghai'd in shanghai 

Laid low in 'frisco 

Done in and left behind for dead 

(copyright 1974 mountain/carlin music)