Song Req: 'There was China Man...'

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 10 - 08:00 AM

Once in China there was a funny man his name was chikaraka chou chai chan his body was long his legs were short the poor little man could hardly walk, chikaraka chou chai chan chatty borra umdiddle ora alow wallow waxi oki doki hit him on the boki itchi gotchi itchi gotchi twinkle,

There are more verses to this but can't remember them and there seems to be many different versions to this??

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 01:13 AM

My second grade teacher taught this version of the song:

Once in a China there lived an old man
Whose name was chica raka chic chac cho
He brushed his teeth with the horses tail
And combed his hair with a big shoe nail
Chica raka Chica raka Chic Chac Cho
itti pie kitty pie ee ay oh..

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,Guest ..Sonja
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 12:06 AM

I was taught this song as a kid in primary school back in the 60's and we sang it like this:

There lived in China a very fine man, his name was chickeraka ching chine chang
His legs were big and his feet were small, this little man couldnt walk at all
Chickeraka ching chine chang chickerony ala ala fact and oak oak orner
itty kitty caterpillar rickaby ickaby oak oak oak

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 05:22 PM

my grandma used to sing this to me.

In China there lived a little man, his name was ching a ling ching a ling chang his head was big and his feet were small -- this little man can't walk at all

ching a ling ching aling ching a ling chang he'd go I'd go happy man. Buggle apress a bandy oar. Gullup and whallup and shine thee oar.

Mrs. Gowigger with words of love, raised the window high above, down there came a ching a ling chang -- that was the end of the China man.

ching a ling ching aling ching a ling chang he'd go I'd go happy man. Buggle apress a bandy oar. Gullup and whallup and shine thee oar.

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,Kimberly
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 11:31 AM

We have a family song that has been passed down it goes:

Ohhhhhhhh--

I know a man in China town and his name is Chili-o, Chili-o Chan, his legs are long and his feet are short, and this is the way the China-man talk.



Ohhhhhhhh--

Chicka-la-leach a-lietch-a-low, chicka-la-Romeo in a bananna-co, wall-la-ka wall-la-ka China Sea, in a banana-co walcho.

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,Katie B
Date: 14 Mar 10 - 11:41 AM

Ok so my version I was thought when I was young is nothing like this....

The once was a china man called
chickaraca chickaraca chichickalora
bombilora willy willy wack
ohko ohko tiddy fi tiddy fi chinese talk
they took him on a motor car
told him not to go to far
the word was said
he fell on his head
and that was the end of the china man

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,Ash
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 05:02 PM

my grandma taught me a version of this song, though it went a little different:

in all japan there lived a man:
his name was chika-racka-chi-chai-chang.
his legs were long, his feet were small,
the poor old man couldn't walk at all,
and they were singing;
chicka-racka-chi-chai-cho-chocalorum-winnopy-nag-catgo-toogo-ittycattykittyco-eyetipietichaitipieti-chaiingco.

the servants used to carry him out
on their backs and the folks did shout:
"here he comes! there he goes! the poor old chap with the funny funny nose!"
and they were singing:
chicka-racka-chi-chai-cho-chocalorum-winnopy-nag-catgo-toogo-ittycattykittyco-eyetipietichaitipieti-chaiingco.

lol epic

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,julianne
Date: 21 Jan 10 - 10:04 PM

This is one of the first songs I learned from my mother around 1940:

In China lived a little man
His name was Chingalanga Chingalanga Chang
His legs were short and his feet were small
And this little man couldn't walk at all

Cho:
Chingalanga Chingalanga Chingalanga Chang
Raygo Daygo Happy man
Cudo Disco Codeo
Gallopy a Wallopy a Chiney go

Miss Skyhigh was short and fat
She had money and he had none
Under her window he would sat
Playing a tune on his little tum tum

Miss Skyhigh heard his notes of love
She held the washbowl up above
She let it fall on Chingalanga Chang
And that was the end of the happy man.

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,guest....
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 08:31 PM

My grandfather used to sing this one to all the grandchildren back in the 70's & 80's :)

Chick a chaloo chaloo chapan wallapa wallapa China Man...
There once there was a China man, his name was Chicka chaloo chapan
His head was big and his feet were small, so the poor China man couldn't walk.
Alas the China man to die and in his coffin he did lie
They sent the coffin to Japan and that was the end of the China man.

:)

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 09:49 AM

My Great Grandma used to sing this song to me and I would dearly love to find the lyrics. She sang it something like this:

In China there lived a China man, his name was Ching-a-rie-Ching-a-rie Chan,
His legs were long and his feet were small, this ChinaMan couldn't walk at all...singing,
Ching-a-rie, ching-a-rie Chan, riddle me this and (?)...
Scallopy, wallopy chinaco

See why I need the lyrics, my memory fails me

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: Paul Burke
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 03:22 AM

I think I asked about this song a while ago. All I know is:

There was a Chinaman
With pigtails spick and span
Ah hah ha ha ha ha
Who never would go out
When there was rain about
Ah hah ha ha ha ha
For rain, he used to say,
Washed pigtails all away
Ah hah ha ha ha ha ha ha
So indoors he would stay
On every rainy day
Ah hah ha ha ha ha

....
Just walk along the street
And him you're sure to meet
Ah hah ha ha ha ha
You're sure to find him there,
He walks without an air
Ah hah ha ha ha ha

The tune is George Formby-ish.

Subject: RE: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,Stoke-on-Trent
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 08:41 PM

My Drandad (Clifford Owen) sang me this version:

There was a man from Chinatown his name was Licka Lacka Lee Law Chan
His head was tall and his feet were small and this little man had no nose at all
Licka Lacka Lee Law Hey Indora Icky Picky Pikey OK

They rolled him in the park one day and frightened all the kids away
They rolled him here, they rolled him there, they rolled him in a bamboo chair.
Licka Lacka Lee Law Hey Indora, In-Di-Ora, Icky Picky Pikey OK

Crappy lyrics but great memories :)

Subject: Song Req: 'There was China Man...'
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 26 Dec 07 - 08:27 AM

My Dad used to sing a song to my brother in about 1938, which had the opening lyric "There was a china man with pig tail spic and span ha ha ha ha he he..."
Unfortunately that's all I know of the song and would really like to find out the name of it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.