From “Flower Drum Song”, 1958
Words by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd
Music by Richard Rodgers
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
A Western street with Eastern manners
Tall pagodas and golden banners
Throw their shadows through the lantern glow
You can shop for precious jade
Or teakwood tables or silk brocade
Or see a bold and brassy night club show
On the most exciting thoroughfare I know
We call it
Refrain:
Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Looks down from Chinatown over a foggy bay
You travel there in a trolley
In a trolley up you climb
Dong dong! You’re in Hong Kong
Having yourself a time
You can eat, if you are in the mood
Shark-fin soup, bean-cake fish
The girl who serves you all your food
Is another tasty dish
You know you can’t have a new way of living
Till you’re living all the way
On Grant Avenue
Where is that?
San Francisco
That’s where’s that!
California, U.S.A.
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: