Words and music copyright 1998 by Steve Brooks Let's have some tea in China.
I'm willing to pay any price.
Let's have some tea in China,
And put all our cares on rice.
We'll leave behind all of our worries -
Newt Gingrich and all those grand juries -
For a land where they can't get their licks in.
Just look what it did for Dick Nixon.

CHORUS

It's the new China Syndrome,
The new China Syndrome.
Let's have a fling in Beijing,
And forget all our troubles back home.

There's much we can teach each other,
On running an economy,
Like keeping the workers smothered,
While setting big business free.
We'll tell them we don't really care if
They never tear down all those tariffs.
We'll keep all their satellites running,
Just keep that campaign money coming.

CHORUS

It's the new China Syndrome,
The new China Syndrome.
We'll drink a Mai Tai in Shanghai,
And forget all our troubles back home.

I'll tell them to be more prudent,
And start to respect human rights.
Quit shooting down all those students.
That sort of thing's not very nice.
They'll thank me politely for sharing.
The papers will say I've been daring.
We'll say our exchange has been frank,
Then we'll laugh all the way to the bank.

CHORUS

It's the new China Syndrome,
The new China Syndrome.
With a dance and a song in Hong Kong,
We'll forget all our troubles back home.

No, nothing could be finer
Than to fly away to China
In the morning.