[Warning: contains derogatory terms for people. Presented here as part of musical history.]
A song about New York City’s Chinatown, 1910.
words by William Jerome
music by Jean Schwartz
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- When the town is fast asleep
And it’s midnight in the sky
That’s the time the festive chink
Starts to wink his other eye
Starts to wink his dreamy eye
Lazily you’ll hear him sigh
Chorus
Chinatown, my Chinatown
Where the lights are low
Hearts that know no other land
Drifting to and fro
Dreamy, dreamy Chinatown
Almond eyes of brown
Hearts seems light and life seems bright
In dreamy Chinatown
- Strangers taking in the sights
Pigtails flying here and there
See that broken Wall Street sport
Still thinks he’s a millionaire
Still thinks he’s a millionaire
Pipe dreams banish every care
Sung here by Fred Feild: