I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China,
all to myself, alone
Get you and keep you in my arms evermore,
leave all your lovers weeping on the far away shore
Out on the briny with a moon big and shiny
melting your heart of stone
I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China,
all to myself, alone

There is no verse to this song
'cause I don't want to wait a moment too long
to say that

I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China,
all to myself, alone
Get you and keep you in my arms evermore,
leave all your lovers weeping on the far away shore
Out on the briny with a moon big and shiny
melting your heart of stone
I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China,
all to myself, alone

- Frank Loesser