Sheet Music, 1920-1929
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0226
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
Relational Format
music score
Original Format
scores
Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
First verse
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.
Refrain
Oh! Limehouse kid Oh! 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 China town. Oh! Limehouse kid Oh! 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 China town.
Second verse
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.
(Refrain)
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