trying to find chinatown trying to find chinatown a hungry man can hold out a long time for some soul food good food whole food i know i was that man maybe sometimes hold out a little too long i took a right then i took a wrong turn someone asked me for a quarter it didn t seem to fit he didn t look much like a chinaman trying to find chinatown trying to find chinatown an old black man pushing a shopping trolley filled with tin cans avoided his glance i m nervous and i m lost and i don t see too many restaurants a guy laid out with a knife in his back a cop came along told him move on go home and sleep it off i didn t know if i should get involved trying to find chinatown trying to find chinatown