Hoagy Carmichael <br /><br />"Hong Kong Blues" <br /><br />This was in the Bogart film To Have And Have Not. <br /><br />Decades later, George Harrison recorded the song. <br /><br />It's the story of a very unfortunate colored man <br />Who got arrested down in old Hong Kong <br />He got twenty years privilege taken away from him <br />When he kicked old Buddha's gong <br />And now he's poppin' the piano just to raise the price <br />Of a ticket to the land of the free <br />Well, he say his home's in Frisco where they send the rice <br />But it's really in Tennessee <br />That's why he said, "I need someone to love me <br />Need somebody to carry me home to San Francisco <br />And bury my body there <br />Oh, I need someone to lend me a fifty dollar bill and then <br />I'll leave Hong Kong behind me for happiness once again" <br />Won't somebody believe <br />I've a yen to see that Bay again? <br />But when I try to leave <br />Sweet opium won't let me fly away <br />I need someone to love me <br />Need somebody to carry me home to San Francisco <br />And bury my body there <br />That's the story of a very unfortunate colored man <br />Who got arrested down in old Hong Kong <br />He got twenty years privilege taken away from him <br />When he kicked old Buddha's gong
