Artist: Cracker
Song: China
Album: Garage d'Or (Disc 2)
Tuning: Standard
Note: Follows a waltz rythmn, 3 beats per chord, played \-\/\-
VERSE 1:
Ah Miss Mary won't you please come home from
China
Bring a bottle of whisky and a tin cup for your
Teeth
Don't you sneak into the back door wearing some
Disguise
Knock on the front door in view of the Temperance
Guild
VERSE 2:
Ah Miss Mary won't you please come home cause I
Miss ya
Your old spinster sister don't always give good advice
Look at her she's in love with that drunken bandy-legged
Sheriff
He'll unzip her pantsuit, but never leave his fat
Wife
CHORUS:
Ah Miss Mary won't you please come home from
China
Come home from China
Come home from China
VERSE 3:
Now that fake old beatnik poet the volunteer
Fireman
He don't care if you come, he don't care like I
Do
He's in love with his dog and all the volunteer
Firemen
And he is a--fraid to let the end of his versus
Rhyme
2x:
FINALE:
-- crookedpath