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On A Slow Boat To China easy guitar chords by
Bette Midler
Bette Midler

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Intro 1
D
A

D

Verse 1
D

Hey, nice piano playin', Manilla
A

Thank you, Miss M
D

Whatcha doin' these days?
G
D

Makin' records
A
Really?
Verse 2
A

D

Yes, really
G
D
A

Do you still play piano for people?
D

Well, depends on who
A
Hmm,
Verse 3
D
B

I'm gonna get you
Em
C#

On a slow boat to China
D
F#
Bbaug

All to myself alone
G
B
Ebdim

Verse 4
Em
C#

Get you and keep you
F#m
F#
Bbaug
Bm
B

In my arm s ever more
D

Leave all the others

Waitin' on a faraway shore
B
G
D
Verse 5

B
Ebdim

Out on the briny
D
Em

Where the moon's
C#

Big and shiny
D
F#
G
B

Meltin' your heart of stone
Verse 6
G
Gm

I'm gonna get you
D
A
C
B

On a slow boat to China
E
Em
A
D

All to myself alone
Verse 7
D

Bette, I didn't know

You felt that way about me
B

I don't, I need a piano player
D
A
D

Ah, just like the old days

You're not gonna change keys
G
D
A
Eb

On me are yah? Uh huh, oh
Cm
I'm gonna get
Verse 8
C

you
Fm

(You're never gonna get me)
D

On a slow boat to China
Gm
Eb

(Not in a fast or slow boat at any crick)
G

All to myself alone
Ab

(I just get motion sick)
Verse 9
Db

I'm gonna make you mine
C
Fm

(Ha, you'll have to stand in line)
F#dim
D

Get you and keep you
Eb
Baug
Db
Gm

In my band ever more
C
F

(Now there's a new attack)
Eb
F
Leave all the
Verse 10
Cm
F

others on the shore
Bb
Db
D

(For me they'd swim to China)
Cb

(To China and back)
Db
B
Out on the briny
Verse 11
C#

F#m

(I wouldn't like the ocean)
D#

Where the moon's big and shiny
G#m

(Not even in a rowboat)
E
Melting your
Verse 12
G#

heart of stone
A

Come on what do yah say?
C#
C#sus4
C#
A

(You always get your way)
Verse 13
A
Am

I'm gonna get you
E
D
C#sus4
C#

On a slow boat to Chin a
F#m
B

All to myself alone,
E
Eb
D
C#
F#m

to gether
Bdim
B

All to myself alone
Outro 1
E
A
C#m
E
D#
E


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Chords
  • D

  • A

  • G

  • B

    2
  • Em

  • C#

    4
  • F#

    2
  • Bbaug

  • Ebdim

  • F#m

    2
  • Bm

    2
  • Gm

    3
  • C

  • E

  • Eb

    6
  • Cm

    3
  • Fm

  • Ab

    4
  • Db

    4
  • F#dim

    4
  • Baug

  • F

  • Bb

  • Cb

    2
  • D#

    6
  • G#m

    4
  • G#

    4
  • C#sus4

    4
  • Am

  • Bdim

  • C#m

    4

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