Lyric Shanghai d in Shanghi

Standing on a corner in downtown L.A.
Waiting for the man to come along
She comes up to me and says " Too bad, too sad"
You know that he s been dead and gone.

L.A. lady, kinda shady
She picked him up and took him home

I woke up groggy my sight was smoggy
And I knew that it had been blown

Early in the morning sitting in a hotel
Moscow s looking fine through the wine
Spaced out I crashed out
When the K.G.B. came on the line.

It s a cold one, bein sent down
It s gotta be fifty below

Mama here s a postcard to let you know
I m in a saltmine and looking for coal

Shanghai d in Shanghai
Stood on in Tuscon
Ripped off and kicked right out the bed

Flyin across the desert from Texas to Tuscon
But we re headed for a southern star
The captain says it s fine in Havana
This dude behind me needs a cigar.

He s a big one, he s got a big gun
I guess we better go along

Mister we ve got a gig in Arizona
Second billing to the rolling stones

Shanghai d in Shanghai
Stood on in Tuscon
Ripped off and kicked right out the bed
Shanghai d in Shanghai
Laid low in Frisco
Done in and left behind for dead


(copyright 1974 mountain/carlin music)