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Road To Beijing

from I Have So Many Friends by Spottiswoode

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A delta blues set in modern China

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Walking down the road to Beijing
Big city, dark red cloud
Left my home this Sunday morning
Nobody’s gonna help me now

All my life I been a good man
Read the words of Chairman Mao
Never caused any trouble
But noboby’s gonna help me now

I don’t like the men from Shanghai
Gonna tear my old house down
They tell me I got thirty days and
Nobody’s gonna help you now

Don’t know where they get their money
They’re gonna build a brand new town
This used to be farming country
Nobody gonna help us now

Walking down the road to Beijing
Big city, dark red cloud
All my life I been a kind man
Nobody’s gonna help me now

Gonna see a man from the Party
Gonna tell him what’s going down
My wife says I’m old and foolish
Nobody’s gonna help you now

Cowboys on their motorcycles
Hair as long as Genghis Khan
They laugh at me and the clothes I’m wearing
Nobody gonna help me now

I hate them all and their easy women
I curse them all and I’ve made a vow
When I get home I swear I’ll kill them
Nobody’s gonna help them now

Walking down the road to Beijing
Big city, dark red cloud
Gonna see a man from the Party
But nobody’s gonna help me now

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from I Have So Many Friends, released August 1, 2023
Spottiswoode: Vocals and guitar
Jonny Gee: Double Bass
Matti Müller: Guitar

© Jonathan Spottiswoode, J Spot Music ASCAP

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For over 2 decades, Spottiswoode & His Enemies have been a constantly self-reinventing New York institution. The IMA winners recently earned three more nominations for their 7th record, LOST IN THE CITY, “an immersive theater-of-the-mind love letter to New York”.

Spottiswoode's songs appear in numerous TV shows and films including Either Side Of Midnight for which he also wrote the screenplay.
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