A Few Words About The Chinese New Year-Allan Sherman

[ti:A Few Words About The Chinese New Year] [ar:Allan Sherman] [al:Allan Sherman — Live!!! (Hoping You Are The Same)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Few Words About The Chinese New Year - Allan Sherman [00:00.69]Now this next song [00:01.49] [00:02.53]Was a big hit comedy song before I was born [00:05.24]And I took this song and modernized it [00:08.37]I hope [00:08.91] [00:09.62]The hero of the song was originally Jewish [00:12.08]And I made him Chinese [00:13.20] [00:14.65]Which is no small achievement [00:15.94]Actually [00:16.39] [00:17.62]Uh and the reason I did that [00:19.14]Was that a couple months ago [00:20.73]In January I was appearing in San Francisco [00:23.16] [00:23.69]And it happened to be during the Chinese New Year [00:25.43] [00:26.16]And I learned that to the Chinese people [00:29.08]This is the year 4664 [00:31.37] [00:32.06]And of course to the Jewish people [00:33.81]This is the year 5726 [00:36.32]Which means that for 1062 years [00:40.27] [00:40.98]Jewish people have had to do their own laundry [00:43.23] [00:53.73]Now this is a very tender [00:54.83]Poignant song actually [00:55.99] [00:56.69]It's beautiful if you want to know [00:58.35]I figure I better tell you it's beautiful [00:59.63]Before I start singing it [01:01.07]Because once I start [01:01.76]You'll have no way of knowing that it's beautiful [01:03.54] [01:06.14]This is a song about a man who walks into a tailor [01:09.51] [01:10.93]And tells him a very sad story [01:12.65] [01:13.59]And it goes like this