CHINEE BUM-BOATMAN
Timing: Waltz
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     Dm                  C           Am            Dm           C           Dm
I'll sing you a story of trouble and woe that will cause you to shudder and shiver,
   Dm               C       Am      Dm         C       Dm
Concerning a chinee bum-boatman who sailed the Yangtze River.
Dm       F          G      Dm           Bb         C       Dm
He was a heathen of high degree, as the joss-house records show.
    Dm     C        Bb         Dm                      C              Dm
His family name was Wing Chang Loo, but the sailor-men called him Jim Crowie-i-o-e-i...


Chorus:
  F                       F     Am  Dm         C        Dm
  Hitchee-cum kitchee-cum ya-ya-ya, sailor-man no likee me.
     F                  F          Am       Dm           C        Dm
  No savvy the story of Wing Chang Loo, too much for the Bobber-i-ee!



Now Wing Chang Loo he fell in love with a girl called Ah Choo Fong.
She had two eyes like pumpkin seeds, and slippers two inches long.
But Ah Choo loved a pirate bold with all her heart and liver.
He was captain of a double-decked junk, and he sailed the Yangtze River-i-iver-i-

Chorus


When Wing Chang Loo he heard of this, he swore an ˇorrible oath.
"If Ah Choo marries that pirate bold, I'll make sausage-meat of them both!"
So he hoisted his blood-red battle-flag, put into the Yangtze River,
And he sailed her South-North-East by West till the pirate he did disciver-i-iver-i-

Chorus


The drums they beat "To Quarters', and the cannon did loudly roar.
The red-hot dumplings flew like lead, and the scuppers they run with gore.
The pirate paced the quarter-deck with never a shake nor a shiver.
He was shot in the stern with a hard~boiled egg that penetrated his liver-i-iver-i-

Chorus


The dying pirate feebly cried "We'll give the foe more shot!
"If I can't marry Ah Choo Fong, then Wing Chang Loo shall not!"
When a Pease Puddin' Hot hit the Bum-boat side, a-causing an 'orrible scene.
It upset a pot of bow-wow soup, and exploded the magazinie-i-eenie-i-

  Hitchee-cum kitchee-cum ya-ya-ya, sailor-man no likee me.
  No savvy the story of Wing Chang Loo, too much for the Bobber-i-ee ki-yi!