
Date of issue: 31.12.1972
Record label: Afterthought
Song language: English
Sketches of China |
He’s stronger by talk than by sight |
But by sight he’ll know you |
You buy him a ride he’ll know you |
Somebody’s bound to lead you |
Sooner or later you’re bound to go |
You don’t know what this man feels like |
He doesn’t care if you think you know |
Somebody’s bound to lead you |
If that man got a smile on his face |
Sooner or later you’re bound to go |
Bound to go |
Let me tell you bout a man I knew |
He roamed the depth and the breadth of China |
On a horse that he grew himself |
From the bark of a tree on mainland China |
And he had a time yes he had the time of his life in China |
He carried strife and harmony to all the people on the mainland |
And there was a warlord who rode the murky depths of China |
With a shotgun in his hand and he wondered where the people’d gone to |
Have you got the time to listen while i sing this song |
I had the time to listen to the man go right and wrong and right thru |
China |
And it ain’t what you want it’s what you need |
No it ain’t what you want it’s what you need |
And I’d rather be here than yesterday |
It ain’t what you want it’s what you need |
And there was a lady she rolled around in town in China |
And there was a lady she rolled and rolled |
And she killed a war she made the warlord rise in time |
She sat him down took him down and she laid him out for just one more |
Round |
Drunk in a beautiful garden celebration |
Here comes the Khan Storm the palace look for Alice |
Rising Oriental girl diving back for just one more pearl |
And it ain’t what she wants it’s what she needs |
She don’t want your sound she wants your country |
And I’d rather be next year than on the way to Bombay |
It ain’t what you want it’s what you need |
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