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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.

— Hoagy Carmichael Song: Hong Kong Blues (1939)

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You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

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