A 1919 popular song
words by Roy Turk
music by Bert Grant and Cecil Arnold
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Sing Song girl from China far away
Loved an American lad
Sing Song girl come to ‘merica, gay
Her heart feeling sad
Soon she meet her Yankee beau
Yankee learns to love her so
From him he would not let her go
It make her heart so glad
Chorus:
Poor Ming Toy, she love her Yankee Boy
And Yankee Chappy make her so happy
To him she sings her lullaby out in the moonlight
Sing Song girl each day for Yankee man she pray
China maiden don’t want lots of gold
Just her Yankee in her arms to hold
Ming Toy Sing Song girl
2. Yankee boy loved China maiden true
For her he gladly would die
Chinaman loved this pretty maid, too
But she cast him by
Chinaman soon went away
Making Sing Song girl so gay
Yankee and Ming Toy wed one day
As Cherry time drew nigh