Tokyo Bay - Nick Lowe

I’ll be a long gone daddy when they find my note

But just for the record this is what I wrote

I’m relocating to a foreign shore

You won’t have me to kick around no more

You can’t make me stay

I’m leaving today

It’s anchors aweigh

I’m shipping out to Tokyo Bay

There’s a solemn little geisha pining for me

Under a parasol out on the quay

She knows I’m coming from beyond the sea

And she’s hoping and a-praying most fervently

That today’s the day I come smoking into Tokyo Bay

I’ll find a liner, then my plan

To work my ticket as some kind of hand

Maybe picking up after the cabaret band

Anything to get my toes in the sands of Tokyo Bay

Well in a dim dockside canteen I know

With my collar turned up and my cap down low

All dressed up like a matelot

I got my grip in my hand packed ready to go

I’ll be long gone daddy when they find my note

But just for the record this is what I wrote

You, you, you can’t make me stay

I’m leaving today

So glad to say

I’m heading up the gangway

Bound for Tokyo Bay

Tokyo Bay

I’ll be long gone daddy

Be long gone daddy

Long, long gone daddy

Long gone daddy

So long

That’s all I wrote