BETTE MIDLER LYRICS - On A Slow Boat To China

"On A Slow Boat To China"

(feat. Barry Manilow)



[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.