On A Slow Boat To China (Feat. Barry Manilow) Lyrics by Bette Midler

On A Slow Boat To China (Feat. Barry Manilow)

Bette: "Hey, nice piano playin', Manilla."
Barry: "Thank you, Miss M."
Better: "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 yah?"
Barry: "Uh-huh."
Bette: "Ohhhh!"
Bette & Barry:
I'm gonna get you
[you're never gonna get me]
On a slow boat to china
[not in a fast or slow boat at any crick]
All to myself alone
[I just get motion sick]
I'm gonna make you mine
[Ha, you'll have to stand in line!]
Get you and keep you in my band evermore
[now there's a new attack]
leave all the others on the shore
[For me they'd swim to China, to China and back]
Out on the briny
[I wouldn't like the ocean]
Where the moon's big and shiny
[not even in a rowboat]
melting your heart of stone, come on what do yah say?
[Ha, you always get your way]
I'm gonna get you
on a slow boat to China,
all to myself alone, to-ge-ther
All to myself alone