Shanghied chords by
Trini Lopez
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Key: G major
Verse 1
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I played around in
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Chinatown, passin' the time away
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When blackjack red hit me on the head,
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when I woke up next day
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I was many miles away
I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter,
I was shanghaied and I ain't no sailor
I was
Shanghai on an ocean freighter,
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I want to get back to shore, back to the
Gulf
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Coast shore.
They threw me off in old
Hong
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Kong and put me on my own, not a penny in my pocket,
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ten thousand miles from home.
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And that's a mighty long way from home.
Ž I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter
Ž
I was shanghaied and I ain't no sailor
Ž
I was shanghaied on an ocean freighter
Ž
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I wanna get back to shore
Ž
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Back to the
Gold
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Coast shore
Ž
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Pick it baby!
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Ž
I worked for grub on an old
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dutch tub and wound up in
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L .A.
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When a pretty little girl took me on a whirl,
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when I woke up next day, when I woke up next
day.
I was shanghaied for the rest of my life,
I was shanghaied, but that's alright, I was
shanghaied.
Got a pretty little wife and nev
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er leaving home no more
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Never leaving home no more
Shake my hand, shake my hand,
shake my hand
Shake hand, shake my hand, shake my hand

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TunerE A D G B E
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