I Like America-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:I Like America] [ar:Noel Coward----(replace by 84005)] [al:Noel Coward In New York] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Like America - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:06.64]I don't care for China [00:08.44] [00:09.00]Japan's far too small [00:10.49] [00:11.13]I've rumbled the Rio Grande [00:13.71] [00:15.18]I hate Asia Minor [00:17.29]I can't bear Bengal [00:19.30]And I shudder to think [00:20.25]Of the awful stink [00:21.22]On the road to Samarkand [00:22.93] [00:23.50]It's really here [00:24.74]Let's stink for smile on the road to Samarkand [00:27.63]But I like America [00:31.37]I have played around [00:32.78]Every slappy happy hunting ground [00:34.71]And I find America okay [00:38.31] [00:40.46]I've been about a bit [00:42.73]But I must admit [00:44.10]That I didn't know the half of it [00:46.37]Till I hit the USA [00:49.75] [00:51.49]No likely lass [00:53.00]In Boston Mass [00:54.13]From passion will recoil [00:56.12] [00:57.17]In Dallas Tex [00:58.62]They talk of sex [01:00.24]But only think of oil [01:01.88] [01:02.77]New Jersey dames [01:04.37]Go up in flames [01:05.82]Someone mentions bed [01:07.52] [01:08.20]In Chicago Illinois [01:09.98]Any girl meets a boy [01:11.51]Giggles and shoots him dead [01:13.30] [01:14.30]But I like America [01:16.85]It's society [01:17.62] [01:18.23]Offers infinite variety [01:19.80]And come what may [01:21.43] [01:22.62]Give me a holiday [01:24.83] [01:25.34]In the gold old USA [01:29.50] [01:31.28]I've loathed every acre [01:32.98]From Cannes to Canton [01:34.53]I also deplore Bombay [01:36.79] [01:37.42]I've jeered at Jamaica [01:39.34]And seen through Ceylon [01:40.97]And exploded the myth [01:42.28]Of those flying fith [01:43.47]On the Road to Mandalay [01:44.99] [01:46.04]I'll never mith [01:47.24]Those blasted fith [01:48.15]On the road to Mandalay [01:49.83]But I like America [01:53.67]I have traveled far [01:55.44]From Northumberland to Zanzibar [01:57.05]And I find America okay [02:00.58] [02:03.06]I've roamed the Spanish Main [02:05.51]Eaten sugar cane [02:06.75]But I never tasted cellophane [02:08.80]Till I struck the USA [02:12.27] [02:14.37]All delegates [02:15.62]From southern states [02:17.07]Are nervy and distraught [02:18.99] [02:20.19]In New Orleans [02:21.40]Those wrought iron screens [02:22.99]Are dreadfully overwrought [02:24.66] [02:26.05]Beneath each tree [02:27.40]In Tennessee [02:28.66]Erotic books are read [02:31.30]And when alligators thud [02:33.08]Through the Mississippi mud [02:34.64]Sex rears it's ugly head [02:36.49] [02:37.55]But I like America [02:40.19]It's simplicity and it's passion for public city [02:43.55]And come what may [02:45.31] [02:46.32]I shall return some day [02:48.76]To the gold old USA [02:53.10] [02:54.53]Hey hey [02:56.03] [02:57.48]Hey hey