The poem started:  Little Ausid, was a chinese kid, and a cute little
'cuss', I declare. With eyes full of fun, and a nose that begun, clear
up to the roots of his hair. Jolly and fat was this rollicksome brat,
as he played all the long summer day. And he braided his queue, as his
father used to, in China land far far away.  One day on the lawn that
Ausid played upon; a bumble-bee flew in the spring. ---------?

Hello.

"Little Ah Sid"
Little Ah Sid
Was a Chinese Kid,
A cute little cuss you’d declare:
With eyes full of fun
And a nose that begun
...
The rest of the words to the poem (or song, to be more precise) are
listed on the web page:
Mt. Carmel High School: Immigration Songs
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/online/usonline/worddoc/immigration_songs.htm


"Little Ah Sid" was written by Joseph P. Skelly in 1883.  There's a
quite a bit of information about the history of the song in  the notes
to a record called "THE HAND THAT HOLDS THE BREAD" New World Records
80267."
http://www.newworldrecords.org/cgi-bin/search2/disc.cgi?disc=80267  

From the note to that recording:

""Little Ah Sid" (1883) seems to have been a more moderate success,
but it had an interesting bastard child (see "Ma! Ma! Where's My
Pa?").  In New York the Chinese were more a curiosity than a threat,
and "Little Ah Sid" was more inanity than insult. It came as close as
the law would allow to cashing in on Bret Harte's phenomenally
successful poem "Plain Language from Truthful James" (1870), in which
a wily Chinese, Ah Sin, hustles a group of miners at poker. In 1877
Harte and Mark Twain titled a play after this character, so Skelly was
not too far behind. Perhaps because of its ancestry, "Little Ah Sid"
endured longer than most novelty items; five years after publication
it was still being performed, and it was probably taken up by an
acrobatic act, Charles Harding and Little Ah Sid, whose first
important appearance was at Tony Pastor's theater in 1889. It would be
nice to know whether Charles and Frank Harding were related."
source  "THE HAND THAT HOLDS THE BREAD" New World Records, cached by
Google:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:hDRcUugIeTsC:www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80267.pdf+%22was+a+chinese+kid%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet


search strategy: "was a chinese kid", "jolly and fat"

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 16 Apr 2003 02:34 PDT

I just wanted to add one more thing...

I notice that there's a one minute sound clip from the song on the
iclassics.com web site:
http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/album.jsp?selectionId=5577
The song is:
Track 11 Little Ah Sid (Skelly)


I also should have mentioned that the complete lyrics to the song are
mentioned both of the web pages mentioned above (i.e., near the bottom
of the Mt. Carmel High School: Immigration Songs page)
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/online/usonline/worddoc/immigration_songs.htm

And also on pages 18 & 19 of the notes to the recording mentioned
above.
PDF format:
http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80267.pdf
Google's cache:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:hDRcUugIeTsC:www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80267.pdf+%22was+a+chinese+kid%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet

Great job. So quick.   Thank you.   E...