Children's rhymes

[nq:1]Probably not. I learned it as "Ching-chong Chinaman" in Chicago around 1970, but I suspect that it's much older. (I'm pretty sure that my version was "fifty cents", although "fifteen" and "ninety" also show up on Google.)[/nq]
I learnt, about 20 years earlier,
Ching chong Chinaman
born in a bar
christened in a tea pot
ha ha ha

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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