Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

This is the story of a very unfortunate coloured man

 Who got arrested down in old Hong Kong

He got twenty years' privilege taken away from him

 When he kicked old Buddha's gong

 And now he's poppin' the piano just to raise the price

 Of a ticket to the land of the free

 Well, he says his home's in 'Frisco where they send the rice

 But it's really in Tennessee

That's what he says

 I need someone to love me

Need somebody to carry me home to San Francisco

 And bury my body there

 I need someone to lend me a fifty-dollar bill and then

 I'll leave Hong Kong far behind me

 For happiness once again

Won't somebody believe

 I've a yen to see that Bay again

Everytime I try to leave

 Sweet opium won't let me fly away

 I need someone to love me

Need somebody to carry me home to San Francisco

 And bury my body there