Don't Bet Your Money On de Shanghai

by Stephen Foster

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De Shang-hai chick-en when you put him in de pit
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He’ll eat a loaf of bread up but he can’t fight a bit
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De Shang-hai fid-dle is a fun-ny lit-tle thing
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And eb-ry time you tune him up he goes ching! ching!
  
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Oh! de Shang-hai!  
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Don’t bet your mon-ey on de Shang-hai
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Take de lit-tle chick-en in de mid-dle ob de ring 
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But don’t bet your mon-ey on de Shang-hai
  
I go to de fair to see de fun-ny fowls
De dou-ble head-ed pi-geon and de one eyed owls 
De lame old goo-se wit no web be-tween his toes 
He kills him-self a laugh-in’ when the Shang-hai crows
  
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De Shang-hai’s tall but his ap-pe-tite is small 
He’ll on-ly swal-low eb-ry thing he can ov-er-haul
Four bags of wheat just as cer-tain as your born 
A bush-el of po-ta-toes and a tub full of corn
  
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Take de lit-tle chick-en in de mid-dle of de ring
But don’t bet your mon-ey on de Shang-hai!
   
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