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The world today seems absolutely crackers, |
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With nuelear bombs to blow us all |
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There are tools and idiots sitting on the trigger, |
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It's depressing and it's senseless and that's why: |
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| D | They | only come up to your knees, |
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| G | Em | Yet they're | always | friendly, and |
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| Am | D | they're | ready to | please. |
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| D | There's | nine hundred million of |
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| G | Em | You'd | better learn to | like them, |
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| D | They | come from a long way overseas, |
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| G | But they're | cute and they're |
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| Em | Am | D | | cuddly, and they're | ready to | please. |
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| A | | The waiters never are rude, |
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| D | | Think of the many things they've |
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| G | Em | Am | D | There's | Maoism, | Taoism, | I Ching and | Chess. |
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| D | I | like their tiny little trees, |
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| G | Em | Am | D | Their | Zen, their | Ping-pong, their | yin and | yang-ese. |
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| G | | I like Chinese thought, |
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| A | | The wisdom that Confucious taught |
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| D | If | Darwin is anything to shout about, |
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| G | Em | The | Cinese will sur | vive us all |
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| D | They | only come up to your knees, |
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| G | Em | Yet they are | wise and they're | witty |
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| Am | D | and are | ready to | please. |
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| D | Their | food if guaranteed to please, |
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| G | Em | Am | D | A | fourteen, a | seven, a | nine and lynch | ees. |
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| D | I | like their tiny little trees, |
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| G | Em | Their | Zen, their | ping-pong, |
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| Am | D | their | yin and yang- | ese. |
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