A 1910 popular song.
words by Jack Drislane
music by George W. Meyer
arranged by Eugene Platzmann
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Jonathan Parks:
Lyrics
1. Did you ever hear that loving Chinatown rag?
Keeps your feet a moving like a Champagne jag
Just lead me to it, Babe
Oh! how they do it, Babe
Dancing, Ain’t it entrancing?
I just get that dreamy feeling right thro’ and thro’
Feel like doing something, Honey, I shouldn’t do
See Pinkey Pankey Poo
And Honolula Lu
Doing that Chinatown Rag
Chorus
Prancy fancy chinee dancy
Hear that tune that makes you jiggle
Do that Honolula wiggle
(She.) Kiss me and call me your mamma, mamma
or
(He.) Kiss me and say you’re my mamma, mamma
Tell me that I am your Yama, Yama
Slide’y, Glide’y, by my Side’y
Look out Love’y, turtle Dove’y
Make no pushee and no shovee
Teach me to prance and dance that Chinatown Rag
2. When you hear that tune you feel like leaving your home
That tune started chamber maids a doing Salome
That ting-a-ling refrain
Just play it once again
Oh Babe, just dance it slow, babe
If you want to win me Honey
Now is your chance
I just can’t refuse you while we’re doing that dance
I don’t care what I do
I just belong to you
Dancing that Chinatown Rag
Sung here by Vancha March: