Hong Kong garden (1980)
G - F - G - F (2x)
G F
1. Harmful elements in the air, symbols crashing everywhere,
G
F
reaps
the fields of rice and reeds while the population feeds.
G F
Junk floats on polluted water,
an old custom to sell your daughter.
G
Would you like number twenty-three,
F
leave
your yens on the counter, please.
G F G F
Oh oh, oh oh oh oh, Hong Kong garden, oh
oh, oh oh oh oh !
G - F
Hong
Kong garden, oh oh oh oh !
+ C - D - G
(3x) - F
G
F
2. Tourists swarm to see your face, Confucius has a puzzling grace,
G F
disorientated
you enter in, unleashing scent of wild jasmine.
G F
Slanted eyes meet a new
sunrise, a race of bodies, small in size,
G
F
Chicken Chow Mein and Chop Suey, Hong Kong
garden Takeaway.
G F
La la
la la, la la la, oh oh,
oh oh oh oh !
G F
Hong Kong garden, oh oh, oh oh oh oh
+ G - F - G - F (3x) + G -
F
(Siouxsie
& The Banshees)