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Thread #6971 Message #2417412
Posted By: GUEST,Jessica Lightfoot
18-Aug-08 - 10:13 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Once in China there lived a great man...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Once in China there lived a great man...
My grandmother used to sing this diddy to me when I was a little girl riding beside her in her car. She always said that there were more versuses that she couldn't remember. I was happy to find additional ones from your blog. My grandmother is now 84.
This is what Gigi would sing to me and my siblings and cousins.
Once there was a China man, his name was chicka cha looch a pan, his teeth were sharp, his nails were long, and this is the way he'd travel along-
Chicka cha looch a looch a pan, aloppy aloppy, Chicka ja alopy,
Then one day, the man he died, in his coffin he did lie, they shipped his body to Japan, and that was the end of the Chinaman.
Chicka cha lutch a lutch a pan, aloppy aloppy, Chinaman.