Biography:
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (14 June 1909 – 14 April 1995) was an Academy Award winning American actor and acclaimed folk music singer and author. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie The Big Country.
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Other songs:
- Lavender's Blue
- On The Front Porch With You
- A Little Bitty Tear
- Aunt Rhody
- Ballad Of Davy Crockett
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
- Call Me Mr In Between
- Christmas Is A Birthday
- Cowboys Lament
- Curry Road
- Frankie And Johnny
- Froggie Went A
- Funny Way Of Laughing
- Holly Jolly Christmas
- I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
- Ill Be Your Baby Tonight
- Jimmy Crack Corn
- Jingle Jingle Jingle
- Marianne
- Mary Ann Regrets
- Mister In
- My Funny Way Of Laughing
- Pearly Shells
- Peter Gray Blow Ye Winds
- Rudolph The Red
- Same Old Hurt
- Shanghied
- The Doughnut Song
- The Owl And The Pussycat
- The Ugly Bug Ball
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Shanghied:Burl Ives.
Flip side of 'A little Bitty Tear'
on DECCA Records in 1961.
INTRO: C A
#1.
D G
I played around in Chinatown, just a-passin'
D G D
time away..when Black Jack Red hit me in the head.
G D G
And when I woke up next day, I was many miles
D Am7 D A
away.
CHORUS:
D
I was shanghied on an ocean freighter.
D
I was shanghied eatin' beans and taters.
D
I was shanghied on an ocean freighter.
G D G
And I wanna get back to shore, back to the Gold
D
Coast shore.
#2.
D G
They throwed me off in old Hong Kong, put me on
D
my own.
G D G
Not a penny in my pocket, ten thousand miles from
D G D Am7 D A
home..that's a mighty long way from home.
CHORUS:
D
I was shanghied in old Hong Kong.
D
I was shanghied, I was all alone.
D
I was shanghied, wanna get back home.
G D G
Back to the Gold Coast shore, back to the Gold
D
Coast shore.
#3.
D G
I worked for grub on an old Dutch tub, and wound up
D
in L.A.
G D
When a pretty little girl took me on a whirl and
G D G D Am7 D A
when I woke up next day, when I woke up next day.
CHORUS:
D
I was shanghied for the rest of my life.
D
I was shanghied, but that's all right.
D
I was shanghied, got a pretty little wife.
G D G
And I'm never leavin' home no more, never leavin'
D
home no more.
OUTRO:
G D Am7 D A..Am7 D A
Never leavin' home no more.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
Flip side of 'A little Bitty Tear'
on DECCA Records in 1961.
INTRO: C A
#1.
D G
I played around in Chinatown, just a-passin'
D G D
time away..when Black Jack Red hit me in the head.
G D G
And when I woke up next day, I was many miles
D Am7 D A
away.
CHORUS:
D
I was shanghied on an ocean freighter.
D
I was shanghied eatin' beans and taters.
D
I was shanghied on an ocean freighter.
G D G
And I wanna get back to shore, back to the Gold
D
Coast shore.
#2.
D G
They throwed me off in old Hong Kong, put me on
D
my own.
G D G
Not a penny in my pocket, ten thousand miles from
D G D Am7 D A
home..that's a mighty long way from home.
CHORUS:
D
I was shanghied in old Hong Kong.
D
I was shanghied, I was all alone.
D
I was shanghied, wanna get back home.
G D G
Back to the Gold Coast shore, back to the Gold
D
Coast shore.
#3.
D G
I worked for grub on an old Dutch tub, and wound up
D
in L.A.
G D
When a pretty little girl took me on a whirl and
G D G D Am7 D A
when I woke up next day, when I woke up next day.
CHORUS:
D
I was shanghied for the rest of my life.
D
I was shanghied, but that's all right.
D
I was shanghied, got a pretty little wife.
G D G
And I'm never leavin' home no more, never leavin'
D
home no more.
OUTRO:
G D Am7 D A..Am7 D A
Never leavin' home no more.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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