Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WING TEE WEE, by J. P. DENISON


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WING TEE WEE, by                    
First Line: Oh, wing tee wee / was a sweet chinee
Last Line: And the maids are false, -- as everywhere.
Subject(s): China; Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


OH, Wing Tee Wee
Was a sweet Chinee,
And she lived in the town of Tac.
Her eyes were blue,
And her curling queue
Hung dangling down her back;
And she fell in love with gay Win Sil
When he wrote his name on a laundry bill.

And, oh, Tim Told
Was a pirate bold,
And he sailed in a Chinese junk;
And he loved, ah me!
Sweet Wing Tee Wee,
But his valiant heart had sunk;
So he drowned his blues in fickle fizz,
And vowed the maid would yet be his.

So bold Tim Told
Showed all his gold
To the maid in the town of Tac;
And sweet Wing Wee
Eloped to sea,
And nevermore came back;
For in far Chinee the maids are fair,
And the maids are false, -- as everywhere.





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