10,000 Chinese Walk Into A Bar - Robert Earl Keen

10 000 chinese walk into a bar and order up a beer

The barman says, it’s funny you know we don’t get many Chinese in here

Now I don’t know if I got it right maybe no one knows

It’s just a joke I heard one night and that’s the way it goes

I’ll have one of those

Grab a chair and stay all night

Make yourself at home

I may be wrong but that’s alright

I am not alone

A little man in this little town, he wears a lot of hats

He’s always out tomcattin' around, he’s got a thing for cats

Now I ain’t seen him with a cat I so ain’t really sure

But listen close 'cause when he talks, sometimes you hear him purr

There ain’t a cure

Another man he loved duct tape, he made a duct tape suit

And he had duct tape from the top of his hat to the heel of his cowboy boot

And when he died they buried him down down in that cold cold ground

And they stuff him in that pine box boy and then they taped him down

I was out of town

(Instrumental)

And then there was this Irishman who, uh, stayed drunk all time

I’m sorry friend I screwed that up, I told you the punch line

Anyway I got to split, they’re just about to close

But I’ll be back tomorrow night 'cause that the way it goes

Yeah that’s the way it goes