DAVID BOWIE - CHINA GIRL

CHINA GIRL

DAVID BOWIE

SONGWRITERS: JAMES OSTERBERG & DAVID BOWIE

COUNTRY: ENGLAND

ALBUM: LET’S DANCE

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1983

"China Girl" is a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop during their years in Berlin, first appearing on Pop's debut solo album, The Idiot (1977). The song became more widely known when it was re-recorded by Bowie, who released it as the second single from his most commercially successful album, Let's Dance (1983). The UK single release of Bowie's version reached No. 2 for one week on 14 June 1983, behind "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, while the US release reached No. 10.

Let's Dance is the 15th studio album by David Bowie. It was originally released in April 1983, three years after his previous album, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album contains three of his most successful singles; the title track, "Let's Dance", which reached No. 1 in the UK, US and various other countries, as well as "Modern Love" and "China Girl", which both reached No. 2 in the UK. "China Girl" was a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the latter's 1977 album The Idiot. It also contains a re-recorded version of the song "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)", which had reached number one in New Zealand, Norway and Sweden a year earlier.

Little China girl

Little China girl

I could escape this feeling with my China girl

I feel a wreck without my little China girl

I hear her heart beating loud as thunder

Saw the stars crashing

I'm a mess without my little China girl

Wake up in the morning, where's my little China girl

I hear her heart's beating loud as thunder

I saw the stars crashing down

I feel tragic like I'm Marlon Brando

When I look at my China girl

I could pretend nothing really meant too much

When I look at my China girl

I stumble into town

Just like a sacred cow

Visions of swastikas in my head

Plans for everyone

It's in the white of my eyes

My little China girl

You shouldn't mess with me

I'll ruin everything you are

You know it

I'll give you television

I'll give you eyes of blue

I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world

And when I get excited

My little China girl says,

"Oh baby just you shut your mouth."

She says, "Sh."

She says, "Sh."

She says

She says

And when I get excited

My little China girl says,

"Oh baby just you shut your mouth."

And when I get excited

My little China girl says,

"Oh baby just you shut your mouth."

She says, "Sh."

She says

Little China girl

Little China girl

Little China girl

Little China girl

Little China girl