Lyrics:
Little Ah Sid
Was a Chinese kid,
A cute little cuss you'd declare;
With eyes full of fun
And a nose that begun
Right up at the roots of his hair;
Jolly and fat
Was this frolicsome brat,
As he play'd thro' the long summer day,
And braided his cue
As his father used too
In Chinaland, far away.
chorus:
Kiya, ling, hip, hop, wing,
Chinaman dance and Chinaman sing;
Flipflop fling, catch um wing,
'Melican buttelfly he sting!
Over the lawn
That Ah Sid played on,
A bumblebee flew in the spring;
“'Melican buttelfly,”
Said he, with winking eye,
“Me catshee and pull off um wing.”
Then with his cap
Did he strike it a rap,
This innocent, gay bumblebee;
He put its remains
In the seat of his jeans,
For a pocket there had this Chinee.
Down on the green
Sat the wee sardine
In style that was strangely demure,
And said with a grin
That was brimful of sin,
“Me washee um buttelfly sure!”
Little Ah Sid
He was only a kid,
And you could not expect him to guess
What kind of a bug
He was holding so snug
In folds of his loose-fitting dress.
