Chan-wan,the good old man,

Chan-wan,the good old man,
Kept a school by Yang-tse-Kiang,
His scholars sat upon the ground,
And learned their letters upside down,
Slippery, sloppery, snap and sneeze,
That the way to learn Chinese!
And when the youngsters made a noise,
He, with his pig-tail, whipped the boys.
This all happened ages ago,
In the time of the good old emperor Fo.
Now, Chan-wan, the good old man,
Lies dead and buried by Yang-tse-Kiang.