Before That Ragtime Band Goes Home 1912

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23 Aug 2006
2006

Sue telephoned me,
said please take me somewhere,
make me feel happy Kid,
and say you'll be there,
I know a place where a brass band
plays a tune so entrancing
you can't keep from dancing that loving way.
We went and danced ev'ry set
and we'd be prancing there yet
if only Sue had her way
because she wanted to stay
but that the band men all wanted
to go home was quite plain
because they started to playing this strain
there is no place like home.
But that girl of mine started to plead:

I want to hear another rag
before the lights go out,
and while they play I want to swing
and sway you in and out.
Put your arms around me
whenwe do the dips
makes me feel good to my very finger tips.
Now don't you let the band go home
before they play that tune;
Make me feel as warm as any night in June,
because I've simply got to have another dance
before that ragtime band goes home.

I want to hear another rag
before the lights go out,
and while they play I want to swing
and sway you in and out.
Put your arms around me
whenwe do the dips
makes me feel good to my very finger tips.
Now don't you let the band go home
before they play that tune;
Make me feel as warm as any night in June,
because I've simply got to have another dance
before that ragtime band goes home.

Since that one evening
Sue does nothing but rave,
over that ragtime
'till she just can't behave
so we went down again last night
just to join in the dancing
we sure did some prancing around the hall.
That we were coming home early
was the promise we made
but we forgot all about it
as the band sweetly played
'Twas when the band started playing
that familiar old strain
I knew that I'd have some things to explain
to the old folks at home.
But Miss Sue started pleading again:

I want to hear another rag
before the lights go out,
and while they play I want to swing
and sway you in and out.
Put your arms around me
whenwe do the dips
makes me feel good to my very finger tips.
Now don't you let the band go home
before they play that tune;
Make me feel as warm as any night in June,
because I've simply got to have another dance
before that ragtime band goes home.

I want to hear another rag
before the lights go out,
and while they play I want to swing
and sway you in and out.
Put your arms around me
whenwe do the dips
makes me feel good to my very finger tips.
Now don't you let the band go home
before they play that tune;
Make me feel as warm as any night in June,
because I've simply got to have another dance
before that ragtime band goes home.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Before That Ragtime Band Goes Home 1912
Words & Music by Billy Smythe & Harry T. Myers
© 1912 by The Billy Smythe Music Co. Louisville, Ky
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 10.49am
in association with Doug Grierson
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