The song "Shanghai Tang" was originally sung by Rita Ip.
"Shanghai Tang" is a song sung by Yip Lai-yee, with lyrics by Wong Cham, music composed and arranged by Koo Ka Fai, and included in Yip Lai-yee's album of the same name released on July 16, 1980, Shanghai Tang. The song is the theme song of the TV series Shanghai Tang starring Chow Yun-Fat and Gigi Chiu.
White said that the inspiration for the song came from his experience of diarrhea, and the lyrics "Waves run, waves flow, ten thousand miles of the river will never stop" came out of it. Huang Zhan was in a hurry when he wrote the song, and since there was no fax machine, he worked with Gu Jiahui on the phone. Gu Jiahui sang the song over the phone, and then Huang Zhan had to sing it to him once after transcribing it to see if there were any mistakes, while Huang Zhan finished the lyrics in only 20 minutes.
Song Lyrics
The tide comes and goes
From morning to night, day and night
The waves are all over the world
Turned to smoke and water
The tide goes up and the tide goes down
The tide goes down and the tide goes up and the tide goes down
The tide has gone through a lot of changes since the beginning of time
Successes and failures
People who are drunk are the ones who are drunk.
It's been a struggle and a sweat
Through the snow and wind
It's been a struggle and a sweat
It's just like the flowing water
The tide goes down, the tide goes up
It's a struggle and a sweat
It's a struggle and a sweat
The fisherman's boat sings in the evening
Singing of the uncertainty of life
It's a struggle and a sweat
Through the struggle and a sweat
It's a struggle and a sweat
Through the snow and wind
Hate and pain are hard to break and I'm used to seeing wounds
Like the flowing water that keeps on flowing
The tide goes down and the tide goes up
How many lives and deaths have been sent away
Fishing boat sings in the evening
Singing the vagaries of life
Fishing boat sings in the evening
Singing the vagaries of life
Through the snow and wind
Through the snow and the wind, I've been sweating and sweating.
It's like the water that keeps flowing
The tide goes down, the tide goes up
How many lives and deaths have been sent away
Fishing boat sings in the evening
Singing the vagaries of life
Fishing boat sings in the evening
Singing the vagaries of life
Singing the vagaries of life
The vagaries of life
The vagaries of life
Singing the vagaries of life
The vagaries of life are the most important thing to me.