Whad’ya Do With Your Que? 1922.
Words by Lew Brown and Sidney D. Mitchell.
Music by Lew Pollack.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Little Sing a Loo and Ming Toy Foo were sweethearts
Never had a quarrel until yesterday
Sing a Loo thought he’d be a sport
So he went and cut off his pigtail short
You should hear Miss Ming Toy say
Chorus
Oh! sing-a-Loo, whad’ya do with your que
That you wore in Chinatown
I loved when it hung down
It was such a big tail, what a lovely pigtail
Sing-a-Loo I’m so blue thru’ and thru’
When I see you I just frown
You were once a slinky, chinky
Now you’re on the blink, blink, blinky
Sing-a Loo if I knew what I do
I’d have stopped you long ago
I thought you’d let it grow
I used to love it so
I know that you don’t care the same
For chopsticks and chow mein
(1. But a chink without a que
Is like a cow without a moo
A cat without a meow
A dog without a bow-wow)
(2. But a chink without a que
Is like a ship without a crew
A chickee, chickee, chick
With no cock-a-doodle-doo-doo)
(3. But a chink without a que
Is like a rose without the dew
A band without an um-pa
A mule without a hee-haw)
Sing-a Loo whad’ya do with your que
That you wore in Chinatown
- Little Sing a Loo and Ming Toy Foo were married
What a celebration when the joy bells rang
Sing a Loo told the happy throng
That his little Ming Toy would sing a song
This is what Miss Ming Toy sang
Sung here by Fred Feild: