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Top Floor Circus @Modernsky Festival’08      Welcome to Shanghai

This is a song about what the Shanghainese think about the EXPO. I translated it into English. Below is the YouTube link and English lyric.

Year 2010 is an important year for Shanghai and China. The Expo will be held in Shanghai. This is a worldwide festival and a great opportunity for China’s development.

My home is on the Bund

Which Huang Pu river surrounds

Oriental pearl stands

At the sound of the bell

Girls walking on Huai Hai Rd

They are the most beautiful ones of the nation

Chewing you Tiao and da bing

We are small citizens

Welcome to Shanghai, welcome to shopping in Shanghai

But don’t forgot bring money

Shanghai welcomes you, the Olympics was nothing special

Let’s meet again at the Expo

Don’t say we are cheap

I invite you to Xin Tiandi

Drinking beer and being drunk

Let me show you how generous I am

Fifty-six nationalities in China

We are a big family

Just ask if you encounter trouble

It serves me right as I’m the richest

Welcome to Shanghai, welcome to shopping in Shanghai

But don’t forgot to bring money

Shanghai welcomes you, the Olympics was nothing special

Let’s meet again at the Expo

The Metro is running underground and skyscrapers are all over the place

Tract mansions build up the Huang Pu river side

But I only have three square meters to live on

Next time when you meet me I will be in the countryside

I could never go shopping at Zhongxin Futai Henlong square

The street vendors all got banished from Jinan Xiaoting Xiangyang Rd market

The crayfish price in Taining Rd is getting higher every year

We have to go and eat the Anhui food at the corner

Welcome to Shanghai, welcome to shopping in Shanghai

But don’t forgot to bring money

Shanghai welcomes you, the Olympics was nothing special

Let’s meet again at the Expo

Welcome to Shanghai, welcome to shopping in Shanghai

We don’t have the culture, but we have the money

Shanghai welcomes you, the Olympics was nothing special

Let’s meet again at the Expo

Welcome to Shanghai, welcome to shopping in Shanghai

But don’t forgot to bring the money

Shanghai welcomes you, the Olympics was nothing special

Let’s meet again at the Expo

Welcome to Shanghai, welcome to shopping in Shanghai

We don’t have the culture, but we have the money

Top Floor Circus @Modernsky Festival’08

Shanghai welcomes you, the Olympics was nothing special

Let’s meet again at the Expo