《A Few Words About the Chinese New Year》歌词

[00:00:00] A Few Words About the Chinese New Year - Allan Sherman

[00:00:00] Now this next song

[00:00:02] Was a big hit comedy song before I was born

[00:00:05] And I took this song and modernized it

[00:00:08] I hope

[00:00:09] The hero of the song was originally Jewish

[00:00:12] And I made him Chinese

[00:00:14] Which is no small achievement

[00:00:15] Actually

[00:00:17] Uh and the reason I did that

[00:00:19] Was that a couple months ago

[00:00:20] In January I was appearing in San Francisco

[00:00:23] And it happened to be during the Chinese New Year

[00:00:26] And I learned that to the Chinese people

[00:00:29] This is the year 4664

[00:00:32] And of course to the Jewish people

[00:00:33] This is the year 5726

[00:00:36] Which means that for 1062 years

[00:00:40] Jewish people have had to do their own laundry

[00:00:53] Now this is a very tender

[00:00:54] Poignant song actually

[00:00:56] It's beautiful if you want to know

[00:00:58] I figure I better tell you it's beautiful

[00:00:59] Before I start singing it

[00:01:01] Because once I start

[00:01:01] You'll have no way of knowing that it's beautiful

[00:01:06] This is a song about a man who walks into a tailor

[00:01:10] And tells him a very sad story

[00:01:13] And it goes like this