In China, Said the Moon-Stephin Merritt

[ti:In China, Said the Moon] [ar:Stephin Merritt] [al:Showtunes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]In China, Said the Moon - Stephin Merritt [00:32.69]"in china " [00:35.33]Said the moon [00:37.28] [00:38.21]Who brings me nightly news [00:43.04] [00:43.79]"I chanced to gaze upon [00:48.37] [00:49.05]A girl with tiny shoes [00:54.36] [00:55.01]With pain in her sole [00:59.39] [01:00.13]She stirs her fishbowl [01:04.83] [01:05.85]Her four fish far from free [01:10.62] [01:11.44]Are far more free than she " [01:16.46] [01:27.68]"in fez-land " [01:29.22] [01:29.84]Said the moon [01:31.90] [01:32.85]"I guided a young man [01:37.50] [01:38.75]Astride his great white steed [01:43.34] [01:43.97]Beside a caravan [01:48.57] [01:49.38]Through long nights he sighed [01:54.43] [01:55.10]And longed for his bride [01:59.55] [02:00.91]He loved as he vowed [02:05.91] [02:06.70]But then but then a cloud " [02:13.20] [02:22.70]"in lisbon " [02:24.06] [02:24.83]Said the moon [02:26.93] [02:28.04]"I kissed a blackamoor [02:32.61] [02:33.54]The slave of camoens [02:38.91]The lusiad's auteur [02:43.65] [02:44.46]The faithful slave's palms [02:49.16] [02:50.00]Were held out for the alms [02:54.70] [02:55.46]To pay for food and rent [03:00.19] [03:01.27]There's now a monument "