Give Us A Ragtime Tune 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 3 Jun 2008
2008

Some people praise
the palmy days
when the actors, they say,
were so great in the plays
of Mister Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
They would rant and shout,
Tear their hair and spout,
they would kill off the cast very fast
in the good old palmy days Good
Old days, Palmy days, killing thrilling
in those gloomy tragic plays.
Those plays so blue, today won't do.

We go where there's fun and folly,
go where the show is jolly,
song and dances we crave,
and the bright eyes
that won't behave.
Just fun! That is what we're after,
Girls and a lot of laughter,
Shakespeare? not for us!
He's too hot for us!
Give us a Ragtime tune!

We go where there's fun and folly,
go where the show is jolly,
song and dances we crave,
and the bright eyes
that won't behave.
Just fun! That is what we're after,
Girls and a lot of laughter,
Shakespeare? not for us!
He's too hot for us!
Give us a Ragtime tune!

Those actors old,
so we are told,
were considered a joke
and they always went broke
on Mister Shakespeare, Shakespeare,
They would wear long hair,
had a gloomy air,
and they'd walk on the track
coming back, in the merry palmy days Walking
back on the track
dead broke, no joke,
getting back to old Broadway,
but now the stars have their own cars.

We go where there's fun and folly,
go where the show is jolly,
song and dances we crave,
and the bright eyes
that won't behave.
Just fun! That is what we're after,
Girls and a lot of laughter,
Shakespeare? not for us!
He's too hot for us!
Give us a Ragtime tune!

We go where there's fun and folly,
go where the show is jolly,
song and dances we crave,
and the bright eyes
that won't behave.
Just fun! That is what we're after,
Girls and a lot of laughter,
Shakespeare? not for us!
He's too hot for us!
Give us a Ragtime tune!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Give Us A Ragtime Tune 1910
Music by Raymond Hubbell
Lyrics by Harry B.Smith
© MCMX by Jerome H. Remick & Co - New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 3 June 2008 at 16.37
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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