I Like America-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:I Like America] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:The Noel Coward Collection, Vol. 2: I'll See You Again] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Like America - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:07.68]I don't care for China [00:09.42] [00:09.98]Japan's far too small [00:12.22]I've rumbled the Rio Grande [00:15.43] [00:16.44]I hate Asia Minor [00:18.50]I can't bear Bengal [00:20.55]And I shudder to think [00:21.61]Of the awful stink [00:22.52]On the road to Samarkand [00:24.23] [00:24.77]It's really here [00:26.05]Let's stink for smile on the road to Samarkand [00:28.63]But I like America [00:32.82]I have played around [00:34.20]Every slappy-happy hunting ground [00:36.13]And I find America-okay [00:38.80] [00:42.02]I've been about a bit [00:44.39]But I must admit [00:45.80]That I didn't know the half of it [00:47.56]Till I hit the U S A [00:51.25] [00:53.15]No likely lass [00:54.78]In Boston Mass [00:56.02]From passion will recoil [00:57.84] [00:58.86]In Dallas Tex [00:59.85] [01:00.51]They talk of sex [01:01.51] [01:02.28]But only think of oil [01:03.47] [01:04.60]New Jersey dames [01:05.66] [01:06.21]Go up in flames [01:07.54]Someone mentions-bed [01:09.50] [01:10.18]In Chicago Illinois [01:11.78]Any girl meets a boy [01:13.48]Giggles and shoots him dead [01:15.29] [01:16.39]But I like America [01:18.90]It's Society [01:19.74] [01:20.27]Offers infinite variety [01:21.94]And come what may [01:23.78] [01:24.75]Give me a holiday [01:27.32]In the gold old U S A [01:31.38] [01:33.44]I've loathed every acre [01:35.16]From Cannes to Canton [01:36.77]I also deplore Bombay [01:39.69]I've jeered at Jamaica [01:41.82]And seen through Ceylon [01:43.20]And exploded the myth [01:44.54]Of those Flying Fith [01:45.85]On the Road to Mandalay [01:47.70] [01:48.44]I'll never mith [01:49.48]Those blasted fith [01:50.30]On the road to Mandalay [01:52.21]But I like America [01:56.22]I have traveled far [01:57.97]From Northumberland to Zanzibar [01:59.50]And I find America-okay [02:02.31] [02:05.67]I've roamed the Spanish Main [02:08.17]Eaten sugar-cane [02:09.46]But I never tasted cellophane [02:11.23]Till I struck the U S A [02:14.85] [02:17.03]All delegates [02:18.28]From Southern States [02:19.90]Are nervy and distraught [02:21.92] [02:22.99]In New Orleans [02:24.34]Those wrought-iron screens [02:25.88]Are dreadfully overwrought [02:27.80] [02:28.99]Beneath each tree [02:30.28]In Tennessee [02:31.26] [02:31.78]Erotic books are read [02:33.93] [02:34.44]And when alligators thud [02:35.91]Through the Mississippi mud [02:37.61]Sex rears it's ugly head [02:39.52] [02:40.65]But I like America [02:43.20]It's simplicity and it's passion for public city [02:46.36]And come what may [02:48.43] [02:49.54]I shall return some day [02:51.88]To the gold old U S A [02:55.42] [02:57.79]Hey hey hey hey