“Little Ah Sid”
Description
"Little Ah Sid was a Chinese kid, A neat little cuss, I declare...." One day, as Ah Sid is out playing, he spots a bee and, taking it for a butterfly, knocks it down and puts it in his pocket. It stings him; he remarks "Um bullifly velly dam hot!"
Cross references
- cf. "The Chinee Bumboatman" (style)
Recordings
- Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink], "Little Ah-Sid" (Conqueror 7887, 1931)
References
- Sandburg, pp. 276-277, "Little Ah Sid" (1 text, 1 tune)
- BI, San276