"Hong Kong Man" genre: Folk Rock
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	Thoughts about Hong Kong soon after the handover to Chinese soverienty.
	MP3.com CD: Waiting for a Chinese Sun... - buy it! CD: Waiting for a Chinese Sun... to Shine   Label: self released in Hong Kong (pm productions) Credits: written, arranged, recorded and performed by Paul Meredith. Mastering assistance in HK from Simon Hui.
	Story Behind the Song It started with that fingerstyle riff, here the guitar tuning is D G D F# B E (capo 2). I think my main influence here is one of my guitar heroes, Canadian guitar and song champion Bruce Cockburn. I love many of his songs, and here I tried not only to emulate a particular style of his (without I hope actually ripping it off) but also the tone and phrasing of the lyric is almost the way I would imagine him to sing it. (Of course I'll never know!) The drums, bass and other instruments, btw, were sequenced on a Roland pocket synth, nice handy little things with a pretty good sound. Lyrics HONG KONG MAN 1. 99 years the government here, they flyin' the union jack well now they give it back -- you took it as a sign and you stood in line for days, pushin', chokin' on the haze in a maze of immigration.. Will you take a long vacation if things get out of hand Hong Kong man, what's your plan for tomorrow What game you gonna play? You gonna go or will you stay? The experts say that the index of your confidence is low But do they know what's in your heart? Hong Kong man you got to let it show 2. Hong Kong man, they called you apolitical You didn't care who ran the show, you were never critical Long as you had a place to go to make your family's keep Now you sleep at night not knowin' what color stripes to wear You're prayin' that the storm will spare the fine house you built On reclaimated sand Hong Kong man, what's your plan for tomorrow What price you gonna pay? You gonna go or will you stay? The polls all say that the index of your confidence is low But do they know what's in your heart? Hong Kong man you got to let it show Sooner or later you got to let 'em know Change comin' for you, you got to let it show Hong Kong man 3. Political upheaval, you see it on the news Makin' it hard to choose Your destiny seems so hard for you to gauge Now you're on the stage You're comin' of age and the world is growin' with you And as you struggle here this weary world keeps lurchin' searchin' for peace in every land Hong Kong man, what's your plan for tomorrow What's your answer for today? Can you make it all work out anyway? Everybody's sayin' that the index of your confidence is low But they don't know what's in your heart Hong Kong man you got to let it show c) Paul Meredith, 1999

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