Anti Rag-Time Girl 1913

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Jun 2005

You can talk about your ragtimes
and your all night cabarets,
you may sing the praise of all the lights
that gleam on old Broadway,
and of all the fluffy ruffle girls
that make the life divine,
but not one of them can travel
with this little girl of mine.
She's just a little fireside girl;
and you may call her slow,
but she's just the kind your mother
would have liked to have you know.

She don't do the Bunny Hug,
nor dance the Grizzly Bear,
she hasn't learned the Turkey Trot
and somehow she don't care.
For chasing 'round the restaurants
she doesn't care a fig,
she can't tell a Tango
from a CanCan or a Jig.
She don't wave her shoulders
when the band plays "ItchyKoo"
the "Wedding Glide"
don't make her senses whirl.
But you bet that she's right there
on some sweet oldfashioned air,
Like Genevieve, sweet Genevieve.
She's my litte AntiRagtime girl.

She don't do the Bunny Hug,
nor dance the Grizzly Bear,
she hasn't learned the Turkey Trot
and somehow she don't care.
For chasing 'round the restaurants
she doesn't care a fig,
she can't tell a Tango
from a CanCan or a Jig.
She don't wave her shoulders
when the band plays "ItchyKoo"
the "Wedding Glide"
don't make her senses whirl.
But you bet that she's right there
on some sweet oldfashioned air,
Like Genevieve, sweet Genevieve.
She's my litte AntiRagtime girl.

There are lots of girls on Broadway,
who have foreign motor cars,
and the chorus ladies always have
much finer ones than stars,
but this little girl that I know
likes the subway or the "El"
and she says that in a little cottage
we are going to dwell.
She thinks that moving picture shows
are absolutely grand!
And when they turn the light out
I'm allowed to hold her hand.

She don't do the Bunny Hug,
nor dance the Grizzly Bear,
she hasn't learned the Turkey Trot
and somehow she don't care.
For chasing 'round the restaurants
she doesn't care a fig,
she can't tell a Tango
from a CanCan or a Jig.
She don't wave her shoulders
when the band plays "ItchyKoo"
the "Wedding Glide"
don't make her senses whirl.
But you bet that she's right there
on some sweet oldfashioned air,
Like Genevieve, sweet Genevieve.
She's my litte AntiRagtime girl.

She don't do the Bunny Hug,
nor dance the Grizzly Bear,
she hasn't learned the Turkey Trot
and somehow she don't care.
For chasing 'round the restaurants
she doesn't care a fig,
she can't tell a Tango
from a CanCan or a Jig.
She don't wave her shoulders
when the band plays "ItchyKoo"
the "Wedding Glide"
don't make her senses whirl.
But you bet that she's right there
on some sweet oldfashioned air,
Like Genevieve, sweet Genevieve.
She's my litte AntiRagtime girl.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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Anti Rag-Time Girl 1913
Words & Music by Elsie Janis
© MCMXIII by Jerome H. Remick & Co., N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 22 June 2005 at 14.47
in association with Doug Grierson
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