Hong Kong Blues

It's the story of a very unfortunate colored man
Who got arrested down in old
Hong Kong He got twenty years privilege taken away from him
When he kicked old Buddha's gong
And now he's poppin' the piano just to raise the price
Of a ticket to the land of the free
Well, he says his home's in
Frisco where they send the rice
But it's really in Tennessee
That's why he said, "I need someone to love me
I need somebody to carry me home to
San Francisco And bury my body there
I need someone to lend me a fifty dollar bill and then
I'll leave Hong Kong behind me