IN BLINKY, WINKY, CHINKY CHINATOWN
(Music: Jean Schwartz / Lyrics: William Jerome)


The Peerless Quartet - 1915
Vic Berton & His Orch. (vocal: Chick Bullock) - 1935





Lights of blinky, winky Chinatown
They brightly burn for those who yearn
Sunshine in that land of no return
What a great big lesson you can learn
See that girl with dreamy, dreamy eye
Hear her sigh as she goes passing by

Take me down to blinky, winky, chinky Chinatown
Where the lights are burning when the Sun goes down
Down where dreamy dreamers dream sweet dreams
In that land of gladness, picking little poppies there among the hoppies
There's no tomorrow, sorrow, grief and care
Oriental angels whisper, "Take me there"
Ah Sing with his little pigtail wears no frown
Down in blinky, winky, chinky Chinatown

See that sallow, shallow looking youth
With no regrets, but lots of debts
Life to him is merely cigarettes
What he used to be he just forgets
On the corner see this son of Hop
Wink his eye and whisper to the cop

Take me down to blinky, winky, chinky Chinatown
Where the lights are burning when the Sun goes down
Down where dreamy dreamers dream sweet dreams
In that land of gladness, picking little poppies there among the hoppies
There's no tomorrow, sorrow, grief and care
Oriental angels whisper, "Take me there"
Ah Sing with his little pigtail wears no frown
Down in blinky, winky, chinky Chinatown






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2014)