Modern Culture: Lyrics about chinese

*** I like Chinese *** from Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album *** transcribed from tape 11/16/87 Daniel Rich <drich@research1.bgsu.edu> (spoken) The world today is absolutely cracked. With nuclear bombs to blow us all sky high. There's fools and idiots sitting on the trigger. It's depressing, and it's senseless, and that's why... (singing) I like chinese, I like chinese, They only come up to you knees, Yet they're always friendly and they're ready to to please. I like chinese, I like chinese, There's nine hundred million of them in the world today, You'd better learn to like them, that's what I say. I like chinese, I like chinese, They come from a long way overseas, But they're cute, and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please. I like chinese food, The waiters never are rude, Think the many things they've done to impress, There's maoism, taoism, eging and chess. I like chinese, I like chinese, I like their tiny little trees, Their zen, their ping-pong, their ying and yang-eze. I like chinese thought, The wisdom that Confusious taught, If Darwin is anything to shout about, The chinese will survive us all without any doubt. So, I like chinese, I like chinese, They only come up to you knees, Yet they're wise, and they're witty, and they're ready to please Wo ai Zhong-guo ren [Wo, I chumba run] Wo ai Zhong-guo ren Wo ai Zhong-guo ren Ni Hao Ma? Ni Hao Ma? Ni Hao Ma? Zai zhen [Ne hamma? ... Chi Chen] I like chinese, I like chinese, They're food is guaranteed to please, A fourteen, a seven, a nine and li-chese I like chinese, I like chinese, I like their tiny little trees, Their zen, their ping-pong, their yin and yang-eze I like chinese, I like chinese, (fade out....)

CHINA IN YOUR HAND - 14/11/1987
5 weeks at #1 - 15 weeks on chart

It was a theme she had
On a scheme he had
Told in a foreign land

To take life on earth
To the second birth
And the man was in command

It was a flight on the wings
Of a young girls dreams
That flew too far away

Don't push too far
Your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard
Because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might
Have set upon yourself

China in your hand

Come from greed
Never born of the seed
Took life from a barren land
Oh eyes wide
Like a child in the form of man
A prophecy for a fantasy
A castle in his mind

Don't push too far
Your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard
Because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might
Have set upon yourself

China in your hand
In your hand, your hand

Don't push too far
Your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard
Because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might
Have set upon yourself
You shouldn't push too hard, no no
Don't push too far
Your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard
Because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might
Have set upon yourself