Tokyo Joe Songtext

von Bryan Ferry

TOKYO JOE

Lyrics: Bryan Ferry
Album: The Ultimate Collection
Track: 06
Release: 1977
Produced: Bryan Ferry & Steve Nye

My girl Friday she no square
She like lotus blossom in her hair
Be-bop records and something new
Sometimes borrowed but she's never blue
Oh no ? not Tokyo Joe

Way past midnight ? she not home
She cut the ice down the Danger Zone
Watertight dresses ? she don't care
A trifle risqué, a tart, no sir
Oh no ? sounds like Tokyo Joe

Geisha girl show you she adore you
Two oriental eyes implore you
Femme fatal or ingenue?
She very cunning, fiendish clever
Geisha girl suffer many times a fool
Sayonara moon
When all the world's a stage, oh where are you?

Tokyo Rose on the radio
Or Diz?n Bird puttin? on The moan
Tappin? out telexes to Tupelo
Dear John, doh ra me fah so?
Let's go ? call for Tokyo Joe

Walkin? tall down the Danger Zone
She hokey-kokey till the cows come home
Big shot ? from the hip ? neon cool
Say, when you've been around, what's left to do?
Don't know? Ask Tokyo Joe

So inscrutable her reply
?Ask no question and me tell no lie?
GI boys howlin? out for more
VIP?S purrin? ?je t?adore?
Ah so ? thats Tokyo Joe