Charley the verse is something like:

From Canton till Macao
Hong Kong to Luliao
The soldiers and the sailors
Immediately* sing their praise
For dinge, dinge, ding-dong
For dinge, dinge, ding-out
She was a sampan(?) girl
And came from Hong-ki-Kong.

(*suspect translation by me. I think the sense may be more like 'unequivocally' but in a rather more shanty-like way)

Mick