Dar's Ragtime in De Moon 1898

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 Feb 2005

Another Coon town notion
has caused a great commotion
all Blackvilles out each evening
the excitement's running high
some coon of syncopation
has raised the new sensation
each night you'll hear him shouting out
as he points up to the sky.

Look there don't blunder blunder blunder
for there's ragtime in the moon
just hear that thunder thunder thunder
they are striking up a tune
and all coons just ponder ponder ponder
take your hats off
gaze yonder yonder yonder
dere's a black man
a playing ragtime in the moon.

Why don't you
Look there don't blunder blunder blunder
for there's ragtime in the moon
just hear that thunder thunder thunder
they are striking up a tune
and all coons just ponder ponder ponder
take your hats off
gaze yonder yonder yonder
dere's a black man
a playing ragtime in the moon.

The Parsons Congregation
they're taking a vacation
the town is ragtime crazy and the fact
you can't deny
some say it's their intention
to make a grand ascension
up in a big balloon some night
when they hear that Darky cry.

Look there don't blunder blunder blunder
for there's ragtime in the moon
just hear that thunder thunder thunder
they are striking up a tune
and all coons just ponder ponder ponder
take your hats off
gaze yonder yonder yonder
dere's a black man
a playing ragtime in the moon.

Why don't you
Look there don't blunder blunder blunder
for there's ragtime in the moon
just hear that thunder thunder thunder
they are striking up a tune
and all coons just ponder ponder ponder
take your hats off
gaze yonder yonder yonder
dere's a black man
a playing ragtime in the moon.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Dar's Ragtime in De Moon 1898
Words by Maurice Shapiro. Music by Seymour Furth.
© 1898 by F.A. Mills but also published in the
Sunday World Music Album Supplement to The New York World
Sunday, July 15th, 1900.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 20 February 2005 at 22.57
in association with Doug Grierson
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