Chop Suey 1958 'Flower Drum Song'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 01 Dec 2005

Chop Suey, chop suey,
living here is very much like chop suey.
Hula hoops and nuclear war,
Doctor Salk and Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Harry Truman, Truman Capote and Dewey,
Chop Suey! Chop Suey!

Stars are drifting overhead,
birds and bees have gone to bed.
Men work late in labratories,
others read detective stories.
Some are roaming round the country,
others sit beneath just one tree.
T'night on T.Vs late, late show,
you can look at Clara Bow!

Chop Suey, chop suey,
good and bad, intelligent, mad and screwy.
Violins and trumpets and drums,
Take it all the way that it comes,
sad and funny, sour and honeydewy,
chop suey!

Ball point pens and Filter Tips,
Lipsticks and potato chips!
In the dampest kind of heat wave
you can give your hair a neat wave.
Hear that lovely La Paloma,
Lullaby by Perry Como.
Dreaming in my Maid'n Form Bra,
dreamed I danced the Cha Cha Cha,

Chop Suey, Chop Suey,
Mixed with all the hokum and ballyhooey
something real and glowing and grand
sheds a light all over the land,
Boston, Austin, Wichita and St. Louis,
Chop Suey! Chop Suey!
Chop Suey! Chop Suey!
Chop Suey!

Soft karaoke
Words
fr hrn
vibes
clarinet
syn str treble
lyric
syn brass 1
drum
pizz
tymp
flute
syn str bass
synbrass2
tuba
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Chop Suey 1958 Flower Drum Song
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
from "The Flower Drum Song"
© 1958 by Williamson Music
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 01 December 2005 at 00.29
in association with Doug Grierson
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