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GUEST,Samantha R	Origins: Ching Chong Chinaman Song (75* d)	RE: Origins: Ching Chong Chinaman Song	11 May 24
In the mid-1980s in New Zealand, my grandfather bought me and my two siblings ukuleles and taught us the following short ditty whilst strumming along: Ching chong Chinaman, All very sad All his cabbagies All gone bad. I don't remember any other verses. My parents weren't pleased at all with the lyrics and told us not to sing them at primary school and so we didn't. My grandfather was born in 1923 in central NZ and had learnt that ditty as a small child.

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