Everybody Rag With Me 1914

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 06 Jul 2005

What's the sneaky, freaky, creepy melody?
It just takes me, makes me restless as can be;
It goes to my heart, my head, my feet,
I'll give everybody in the house my seat.
I want to dance, dance, dance, dance,
dance till I drop,
I don't ever want to stop this ragging

Everybody rag with me,
everybody drag with me.
I've learned those dips and skips
and dreamy hesitations,
I could dance till day is dawning
then I want to dance all morning.
Everybody sway with me,
drop your work and play with me,
I don't want to hear any opera grand,
ragtime music, that's what I understand!
I want everybody in the world
to rag with me.

Everybody rag with me,
everybody drag with me.
I've learned those dips and skips
and dreamy hesitations,
I could dance till day is dawning
then I want to dance all morning.
Everybody sway with me,
drop your work and play with me,
I don't want to hear any opera grand,
ragtime music, that's what I understand!
I want everybody in the world
to rag with me.

Sousa's clever but he never played like this,
this just thrills me and it fills me full of bliss;
There it goes again! That sweet refrain!
Every note reminds me of an Angel strain!
Come on and dance, dance, dance, dance,
then dance some more,
We'll wear out this old pine floor completely.

Everybody rag with me,
everybody drag with me.
I've learned those dips and skips
and dreamy hesitations,
I could dance till day is dawning
then I want to dance all morning.
Everybody sway with me,
drop your work and play with me,
I don't want to hear any opera grand,
ragtime music, that's what I understand!
I want everybody in the world
to rag with me.

Everybody rag with me,
everybody drag with me.
I've learned those dips and skips
and dreamy hesitations,
I could dance till day is dawning
then I want to dance all morning.
Everybody sway with me,
drop your work and play with me,
I don't want to hear any opera grand,
ragtime music, that's what I understand!
I want everybody in the world
to rag with me.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Everybody Rag With Me 1914
Lyric by Gus Kahn - Music by Grace Le Boy
© MCMXIV by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 06 July 2005 at 14.16
in association with Doug Grierson
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