Slow Boat to China

Words & Music by Frank Loesser
Recorded by Kay Kyser, 1948


A   C#m7-5  F#7     A7      Bm7         Cdim
I'd love to get you   on a slow boat to China,

A        C#7    D     F#7
All to myself alone;

Bm7         Cdim           A    G7  F#7 
Get you and keep you in my arms evermore,

B7    F#m7     B7     Bm7            Bm7-5    E7/6
Leave all your lovers weepin' on the faraway shore.


 A C#m7-5   F#7   A7         Bm7           Cdim
Out on the briny,   with the moon big and shiny,

 A           C#7        D       F#7
Melting your heart of stone;

Bm7-5   E7    C#m7-5   F#7  A    G7      F#7
 I'd   love to get you on a slow boat to China,


First Time:

D9    Fdim         Bm7-5    E7          A           F7       E7
All to myself a - lone.


Last Time:

D9 Fdim  Bm7-5  E7  A  G7    F#    F#7
All to myself, with no-bod-y else,

D9 Fdim  Bm7-5 E7    D9   BbM7   A    A6
All to myself   a - lone.



 
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