[Warning: derogatory racial terms. Original is presented as part of music history.]
A popular song from the year 1922
words by Douglas Furber
music by Philip Braham
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
- In Limehouse where yellow chinkies love to play
In Limehouse where you can hear those blues all day
And they seem all around, like a long long sigh
Queer sob sound, oh, Honey Lamb, they seem to cry
Chorus
Oh! Limehouse kid, Oh! Oh! Limehouse kid
Going the way that the rest of them did
Poor broken blossom and nobody’s child
Haunting and taunting you’re just kind o’ wild
Oh! Oh! Oh! Limehouse blues
I’ve the real Limehouse blues
Learned from the chinkies those sad China blues
Rings on your fingers and tears for your crown
That is the story of old Chinatown
- Oh, Dearie, right here in orange blossom land
I’m weary ’cause no one seems to understand
And those weird China blues never go away
Sad, mad blues for all the while they seem to say
Sung here by Fred Feild: