A popular song from 1917. Words and Music by Irving Berlin. Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle. Copyright ©23 Jan 1917. Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
Sheet Music
Accompaniment
Lyrics
Chorus:
I’ll soon be there
In a bamboo chair
For I’ve got my fare
From here to Shanghai
Just picture me
Sipping Oo-long tea
Served by a Chinaman
Who speaks a-way up high
(“Hock-a-my, Hock-a-my”)
I’ll eat the way they do
With a pair of wooden sticks
And I’ll have Ching Ling Foo
Doing all his magic tricks
I’ll get my mail
From a pale pig-tail
For I mean to sail
From here to Shanghai
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein:
Performance
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