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Nanjing Road
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StanTheManLoh
Very old song I wrote about Nanjing Road in Shanghai. Those days I spent a lot of time in China, and Shanghai was still the old Shanghai. Today Nanjing Road is all skyscrapers. There was actually a jazz band playing from a balcony in the old days!
Tommy mixed this one for me. That was when I recorded this song live one a one take.
I took this picture from a hotel room. Those days no high towers in Pudong yet.
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Released 08-Jun-2026
Category Pop
Application Other
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Type mp3
Size 6.5 Mb
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Nanjing Road
©  March 20, 2008 Stanley Loh.  Written in Guangzhou, China.
Nanjing Road is a hot spot for foreign tourists in Shanghai…a shoppers’ paradise. But it has a seedy side.
Intro -- -Bm  Esus2/  Bm   E/  Bm   D/ G7    D/ G7   D

Verse 1
D							         D7
They trod the concrete tiles of Nanjing Road,
	   Bm				                         G
On a ledge old man plays his saxophone,
		D				            D7
While shoppers pause to hear blue notes,
G                          					D
Dancers find their grace on cobblestones.
Instrumental - - Bm   D/ G7   D
Verse 2
D					         D7
Working gals tug at foreign sleeves,
	      Bm	                                       G
They pester for sexual bread,
	  D					                   D7
And paint the color red on Shanghai streets,
               G                     					    D
As shame is swept away by what was said.
Chorus
A			  F
Nanjing Road, Nanjing Road,
D				        D7
Your heart is set to explode!
G                          	       D
Nanjing Road, Nanjing Road,
     A						              D          D7    G
Your neon eyes will wake the unbestowed…oh!
                           G	     D
Nanjing Road, Nanjing Road
Instrumental - - Bm   D/  Bm   D/ G7    D/ G7   D
Verse 3
D						         D7
The nouveau riche adorned with pearls,
	                 Bm	                                                 G
One can’t tell the fake from the real,
	     D				                              D7
They flash their wealth like English Earls,
                   G 			                           D
And spurn the beggars to no avail.
Repeat Chorus
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