All Aboard The Ragtime Train 1917 'The Tivoli Follies'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Sep 2004

Come my little baby, come my little baby,
get aboard the rag time train with me,
it has the greatest little engine I know,
with its raggy, raggy, raggy, raggy,
Chooca chooca choo.
Stop and look and listen,
stop and look and listen,
shuffle, get a move on, come with me.
You'll never want to get off again,
but I know just what you'll do;
Oh baby, oh honey,
watch your step and dance aboard with me,
You'll love it, you'll love it,
Please oh please oh come along with me.
Just to have you dancing with me again
just to have you cuddling up again.
That dance, that dance aboard the rag time train.

Start her up, start her up,
start her up, start her up and
get aboard the raggy rag time train...
Hurry up, hurry up,
hurry up, hurry up
you'll never get the happy chance again
Don't you ever dare to get left behind
if you should miss it
oh you'll surely find that you have lost
the best chance of your life.
Hear the bell, hear the bell,
hear the bell, hear the bell
just listen to it ringing once again...
don't you stop, don't you stop,
don't you stop, don't you stop
and don't you ever dare to miss that train.
You'll never want to go home again
when you're dancing to that raggy refrain
Oh say you'll sway
aboard the rag time train.

Start her up, start her up,
start her up, start her up and
get aboard the raggy rag time train...
Hurry up, hurry up,
hurry up, hurry up
you'll never get the happy chance again
Don't you ever dare to get left behind
if you should miss it
oh you'll surely find that you have lost
the best chance of your life.
Hear the bell, hear the bell,
hear the bell, hear the bell
just listen to it ringing once again...
don't you stop, don't you stop,
don't you stop, don't you stop
and don't you ever dare to miss that train.
You'll never want to go home again
when you're dancing to that raggy refrain
Oh say you'll sway
aboard the rag time train.

You're my little baby,
you're my little baby,
get aboard don't linger here with me.
You'll miss the finest little party you know,
where they rag it, rag it, rag it, rag it,
Watch them where they go.
Don't you dare to linger,
don't you dare to linger,
Hustle or you never can get on.
The whistle goes and they're off again
and soon they will be gone.
Oh baby, oh honey,
get your grip and come along with me.
Don't miss it, don't miss it,
Come on and so happy we will be.
For the engine's puffing a raggy strain,
the conductor's ragging around again,
Last call, last call aboard the rag time train.

Start her up, start her up,
start her up, start her up and
get aboard the raggy rag time train...
Hurry up, hurry up,
hurry up, hurry up
you'll never get the happy chance again
Don't you ever dare to get left behind
if you should miss it
oh you'll surely find that you have lost
the best chance of your life.
Hear the bell, hear the bell,
hear the bell, hear the bell
just listen to it ringing once again...
don't you stop, don't you stop,
don't you stop, don't you stop
and don't you ever dare to miss that train.
You'll never want to go home again
when you're dancing to that raggy refrain
Oh say you'll sway
aboard the rag time train.

Start her up, start her up,
start her up, start her up and
get aboard the raggy rag time train...
Hurry up, hurry up,
hurry up, hurry up
you'll never get the happy chance again
Don't you ever dare to get left behind
if you should miss it
oh you'll surely find that you have lost
the best chance of your life.
Hear the bell, hear the bell,
hear the bell, hear the bell
just listen to it ringing once again...
don't you stop, don't you stop,
don't you stop, don't you stop
and don't you ever dare to miss that train.
You'll never want to go home again
when you're dancing to that raggy refrain
Oh say you'll sway
aboard the rag time train.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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All Aboard The Ragtime Train 1917
Lyrics by Jamie Kelly
Music by Edward Hutchison
"Hugh D. McIntosh presents the Tivoli Follies"
Online Resources: http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an10835864
© 1917 by Allan & Co., Melbourne, Australia
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 26 September 2004 at 21.17
in association with Doug Grierson
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Courtesy of The National Library of Australia
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