On A Slow Boat To China

(feat. Barry Manilow)

[Bette:]"Hey, nice piano playin', Manilla."
[Barry:]"Thank you, Miss M."
[Bette:]"Whatcha doin' these days?"
[Barry:]"Makin' records."
[Bette:]"Really?"
[Barry:]"Yes, really."
[Bette:]"Do you still play piano for people?"
[Barry:]"Well, depends on who."

[Bette:]Hmmm, I'm gonna get you
on a slow boat to China,
all to myself alone;
Get you and keep you in my arms evermore;
Leave all the others
waitin' on a faraway shore.

[Bette & Barry:]Out on the briny
where the moon's big and shiny,
melting your heart of stone.
I'm gonna get you
on a slow boat to China,
all to myself alone.

[Barry:]"Bette, I didn't know you felt that way about me."
[Bette:]"I don't. I need a piano player."
[Barry:]"Ahh, just like the old days!"
[Bette:]"You're not gonna change keys on me, are ya?"
[Barry:]"Unh Huh."
[Bette:]"Ohhh!"

[Bette:]I'm gonna get you
[Barry:]You're never gonna get me.
[Bette:]on a slow boat to China
[Barry:]Not in a fast or slow boat to any crick.
[Bette:]all to myself alone;
[Barry:]I just get motion sick
[Bette:]I'm gonna make you mine.
[Barry:]Ha, you'll have to stand in line.
[Bette:]Get you and keep you in my band evermore;
[Barry:]Now there's a new attack.
[Bette:]Leave all the others on the shore.
[Barry:]For me they'd swim to China, to China and back.

[Bette:]Out on the briny
[Barry:]I wouldn't like the ocean,
[Bette:]where the moon's big and shiny,
[Barry:]not even in a rowboat.
[Bette:]melting your heart of stone.
Come on, what do you say?
[Barry:]Ha ha, you always get your way.
[Bette & Barry:]I'm gonna get you
on a slow boat to China,
all to myself alone, to-ge-ther.
All to myself alone.