Song Lyrics

How To Be A Cannonball appears onHow To Be A Cannonball

The Barber of Shibuya

by Alex McMurray Velvety Pod Music (BMI)

Johnny's feeling lucky that's the sailor way

He's been leaking money

Yeah he pisses it away

He bought himself a human went out on a spree

Woke up in the gutter

That's the sailor way to be

Don't you get lost my friends in a foreign land

for the Barber of Shibuya has got a razor for a hand

 

For playing on his jew's harp they threw him off the train

He couldn't find no taxi

so he wandered in the rain

The girl who eats Kimono played a strange guitar

Johnny thought he'd sleep there and dream of Zanzibar

Don't you get lost my friends in a foriegn land

for the Barber of Shibuya has got a razor for a hand

 

The Barber of Shibuya the Bourbon of Brunei

nightly trolls for sleeping souls

and then you say goodbye

 

Johnny he got shanghaied found a scab upon his neck

woke up in the scuppers

of a Chinese wreck

He said, "I ain't no sailor I never seen the horn"

The captain threw him overboard

where he sleeps forevermore

Don't you get lost my friends in a foriegn land

for the Barber of Shibuya has got a razor for a hand