Tenement House

DESCRIPTION: "I livee in tenamentee housee." Described as "a language-distortion song that satirizes a Chinese immigrant advertising his laundry."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2014 (Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs)
KEYWORDS: wordplay campsong foreigner
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 420-421, "Tenement House" (notes only)
NOTES [41 words]: Averill claims to have eleven versions of this song. I can find no mention of a "Tenement Song" in either my recent scouting songbooks or even the old ones that would not object to such a racist song. So this is here mostly as a placeholder. - RBW
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File: ACSF420T

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