4    4   5    6    6   7   7  -7   7  -8 -7 -6 

De Shang-hai chick-en when you put him in de pit

 -7    7 -7   7   6   -6   6 -5   5   5    -4   4 -4

He’ll eat a loaf of bread up but he can’t fight a bit

 4   4    5   6   6   7 7  -7  7  -8  -7   6 

De Shang-hai fid-dle is a fun-ny lit-tle thing

-7   7 -7   7   6   -6   6  -5  5   5    -4    -4

And eb-ry time you tune him up he goes ching! ching!

Chorus

 6  6   8    7

Oh! de Shang-hai!  

 -6   -6   -6’  -6 -7  7 -6   6    5 

Don’t bet your mon-ey on de Shang-hai

  4   4  5   5    6    6  7  7 -7   7  -8 -7   6

Take de lit-tle chick-en in de mid-dle ob de ring 

 6    7    6    6   6  -6  6 -5    5   4 

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

Chorus 

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

Chorus

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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