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  • Lyrics to Chinatown by Peter Moon?

    I was listening to Peter Moon's "Greatest Hits Collection 1" tonight and started singing along to "Chinatown" - except that I can't get all the words. Does anyone know them? Here's what I can make out:

    They put the Chinaman in Chinatown
    Laundryman fieldhand moneylender yinyang
    They filled the air with the smells and sounds
    Firecracker black lacquer opium and dimsum
    Brought in their women and settled down
    Placid and smooth cheeked silk bound small feet
    Shanghai beauty don't walk this street
    There's the sweet sour odor of burning sweet meat
    In Chinatown

    They came from everywhere to Chinatown
    Missionary Shaolin Holy Bible I Ching
    The air was full of the smells and sounds
    Gunpowder oolong incense mahjong
    The ships arrived from the seven seas
    Bringing black market gold and the black disease
    See the rats scatter smell the kerosene
    You can smell Hell burning and times are lean
    In Chinatown

    They seen it all _____ in Chinatown
    Pearl Harbor Vietnam street war hired gun
    Now the tenements are all run down
    __________ old man living from a tin can
    They know they're living on shaky ground
    ______________________________
    Shanghai beauty now what's that sound?
    It's the bulldozer tearing my childhood down
    In Chinatown


    Do any of his albums have the full lyrics to this song?

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    Re: Lyrics to Chinatown by Peter Moon?

    Howzit!

    Try searching through this site: http://www.hawaii-music.com/sheetmusic.shtml

    Good Luck!

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    • #3
      Re: Lyrics to Chinatown by Peter Moon?

      More than half the sheet/lyric sites linked on that page are dead and gone. Those that are left didn't have "Chinatown" in their collections. Taking fragments of the song and plugging it into Google didn't find the words either.

      You might want to try alt.music.hawaiian on USENET. Peter Moon comes up now and then, and that's a knowledgable bunch of folks.

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      • #4
        Re: Lyrics to Chinatown by Peter Moon?

        Good call! I asked in alt.music.hawaiian and within hours Judy B had pulled her LP off the shelf and checked her liner notes for me. Folks can be so helpful!

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