Get Your Money's Worth 1897

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 13 September 2010
2010

Last night the darkies
gave a rag time ball
You had to be a ragged coon
to enter in the hall,
Such a bunch of ragged japs
I never did saw
you could hire sharp razors
from a barber at the door,
A coon named Ragtime Jimmy
was the man who ran the dance,
He called the rag time figures
when them coons began to prance.
He said my dogs harms me coons
I think I've got the gout
But prepare to show you're nigger
at each figure that I shout.
All hands around
Bow to the ground
Do the Possuma la,
Take your lady to the bar
Do The Highland Fling,
Cut the pigeon wing
You paid for a good time
So let your voices ring:

Get your money's worth
I've had my gin and feel mighty glad
Get your money's worth
Have a good time
But don't get bad,
Get your money's worth
Dance yourself clean off the earth
If you want to have fun
Bring your razor and your gun
And get your money's worth.

Get your money's worth
I've had my gin and feel mighty glad
Get your money's worth
Have a good time
But don't get bad,
Get your money's worth
Dance yourself clean off the earth
If you want to have fun
Bring your razor and your gun
And get your money's worth.

The darkies got excited
just 'bout half past one
When a coon came in
they called Wild Bill
and he drew out his gun
He said: "Knives, guns and razors
I don't fear,
The sound of a revolver
is sweet music to my ear."
Then Ragtime Jimmy
stepped out in the middle of the floor
and he said to this wild coon:
"Are you looking for gore;
I know you are a bad coon
and your name is Wild Bill
If you get bad tonight my friend
your name will be Tame Will
Coons take your place
Look your lady in the face
Now darkies prance,
Do the Hoochee Kouchee Dance.
Do the Bumba Shay,
Go the other way,
Don't pay no 'tention to Wild Bill
But listen to what I say:

Get your money's worth
I've had my gin and feel mighty glad
Get your money's worth
Have a good time
But don't get bad,
Get your money's worth
Dance yourself clean off the earth
If you want to have fun
Bring your razor and your gun
And get your money's worth.

Get your money's worth
I've had my gin and feel mighty glad
Get your money's worth
Have a good time
But don't get bad,
Get your money's worth
Dance yourself clean off the earth
If you want to have fun
Bring your razor and your gun
And get your money's worth.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Get Your Money's Worth 1897
by Irving Jones
© 1897 by F.A.Mills - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 13 September 2010 at 11.00
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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