Limehouse Blues
[Verse]
- In Limehouse
- Where yellow chinkies love to play
- In Limehouse
- Where you can hear those blues all day
- And they seem all around
- Like a long long sigh
- Queer sob sound
- Oh Honey Lamb they seem to cry
[Refrain]
- Oh! Limehouse kid
- Oh! Oh! Oh! Limehouse kid
- Going the way that the rest of them did
- Poor broken blossom and nobody's child
- Haunting and taunting you're just kind of wild
- Oh! Oh! Oh! Limehouse blues
- I've the real Limehouse blues
- Learned from chinkies those sad China blues
- Rings on your fingers and tears for your crown
- That is the story of old China town.
[Verse]
- Oh Dearie
- Right here in orange blossom land
- I'm weary
- 'Cause no one seems to understand
- And those weird China blues
- Never go away
- Sad mad blues
- For all the while they seem to say
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