Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

Mikado Mcallister - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
Mikado McAllister. Copyright, 1886, by Willis Woodward & Co. Words and Music by J. F. Mitchell. 
Bad luck to Japan and its heathenish ways, I'm tired of my life thro' the new fangled craze; Though I know that my face is like Donnybrook's map, Sure everyone tells me I look like a Jap. My wife is as bad, if not worse than the rest, In Japanese costumes each day she is dressed; She's howling " Tit-Willow " the whole of the day, And the " Flowers that Bloom in the Spring " tra la lay. 
Chorus. And as I go out for my pitcher of beer, There is not a child, or a woman or man, But calls me Mikado McAllister, Ko-Ko, The red-headed, squinty-eyed Mick from Japan. Here's a how-de do! Here's a how-de-do! 
She says when we quarrel, I'm down on her list, And tells all the neighbors I'll never be missed; Her hair is pushed back 'till she can't shut her eyes, She looks as if struck by eternal surprise. My dinner sometimes is a half an hour late, It's a Hamburger steak on a Japanese plate; My children one time called me father and pap, But she tells them to call Mikado, the Jap!-Chorus. 
She makes herself up like a hand-painted screen, She goes through the house like a tragedy queen; She sold the big bed at a second-hand store, So in Japanese fashion we sleep on the floor Instead of Mikado it's Ko-Ko I'll be, If she don't stop her monkeying antics with me; She will not go out for the beer with a can, For she says that such things are not done in Japan.-Chorus.