I found another version at https://lairdfamilymatters.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/6/


Grandfather was rather a testy old gentleman but he had a sense of humour and he surprised us all one time at some kind of party by sitting down at the piano and playing a little tinkling song singing ?Rinkerty Ching was Chinaman?.

Grandfather?s Song

Lin was a mighty great mandarin,
Fidgety, proud, and old.
Tin was dealer in Tin at Pekin
Rich as a mine of gold.

Now Mr Lin was a foolish man
Awfully fond of dash;
Speedily through his income ran,
Often was short of cash.

He owned more money than he could pay,
Mortgaged to Tin his land,
And so to settle his debts one day,
He sold him his daughter?s hand.

Miss Lin was fair and of high degree,
Sweet as a China Rose
And at Tin with his chests of tea
She turned up her noble nose.

The day of the marriage was fixed, and then
All would soon have been o?er,
When a barbarian Englishman
Suddenly came on shore.

Soon this Midshipman bouncing in,
Scattered them far and wide,
And far away on a foreign shore
She sails as a sailor?s bride.

Chorus:
Ringetty chingetty ching ching ching!
Ringetty ching ching ching!
Ringetty chingetty ching ching ching!
Ringetty ching ching ching!