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Quotes from Song: Hong Kong Blues — Hoagy Carmichael

1899–1981 United States

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It's the story of a very unfortunate colored man
Who got arrested down in Old Hong Kong
He got twenty years' privilege taken away from him
When he kicked old Buddha's gong.

Song: Hong Kong Blues (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hoagy Carmichael (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.