Background info on "Ching-A-Ring-Chaw"?

Question:

Background info on "Ching-A-Ring-Chaw"?

inquiring HS singers want to know - what does it mean? I'm preparing my choir for a March performance in Albany NY and not having much luck finding anything about the words to the Copland arrangement - help!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: according to the Library of Congress website Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860

"Ching A Ring Chaw. w., m., anon. Baltimore: Geo. Willig, Jr. [ca. 1833.] (Also published under the title "Sambo's Address to His Bred'ren," by T. Birch, New York.)"

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sm2html/sm2g...

original lyrics can be found here

http://www.pdmusic.org/1800s/33cacc.txt...