A popular song from 1916.
Words by Herman Rose and Fred D. Moore.
Music by Oscar Gardner.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
You’ve all heard the Chinese blues
Of sweet little China gal
Sung Fong Loo
She’s got a new sweetheart they say
He’s the Fan Tan Man
That’s the game he plays
He love little Sung Fong Loo
She’s in love with Fan Ran, too
All night long his game he play
Then he hears his sweetheart say
CHORUS
Oh my Fan Tan Fan Tan man
From that quaint old China land
Sung Fong cry come home to me
Sing that ipshing Hong Kong lee
I’m as lonesome as can be
For my Fan Tan Fan Tan Man
Loo for you do all she can
When we marry we will go
Live in Chinese bungalow
Oh my Fan Tan Man
VERSE 2
Oriental style today
Is to bill and coo in Chinese way
They’re married now and happy too
And they live in that Chinese bungalow
No more he stay out all night
Coming home at broad day light
He’s so happy now they say
Since her heard his sweetheart say