I'm Certainly Living The Ragtime Life 1900

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 10 Aug 2006
2006

Got more trouble than I can stand
ever since ragtime has struck the band
never saw the like in all my days;
ev'ryone has got the ragtime craze;
stood it just as long as I could.
At last I got it and I got it good
first I didn't want any in mine,
but now I'm right in line.

I got a ragtime dog and a ragtime cat
a ragtime piano in my ragtime flat,
wear ragtime clothes, from hat to shoes,
I read a paper called the "Ragtime News"
Got ragtime habits and I talk that way,
I sleep in ragtime and I rag all day,
got ragtime troubles with my ragtime wife,
I'm certainly living a ragtime life.

I got a ragtime dog and a ragtime cat
a ragtime piano in my ragtime flat,
wear ragtime clothes, from hat to shoes,
I read a paper called the "Ragtime News"
Got ragtime habits and I talk that way,
I sleep in ragtime and I rag all day,
got ragtime troubles with my ragtime wife,
I'm certainly living a ragtime life.

Went to church last Sunday morn
hymns were in ragtime as sure's you're born
ev'ry gripman pounds it on his gong
clocks and watches are all running wrong,
cakewalk music it fills the air,
it can't be dodged because it's ev'rywhere,
once I didn't belong, you see,
but now you can't lose me.

I got a ragtime dog and a ragtime cat
a ragtime piano in my ragtime flat,
wear ragtime clothes, from hat to shoes,
I read a paper called the "Ragtime News"
Got ragtime habits and I talk that way,
I sleep in ragtime and I rag all day,
got ragtime troubles with my ragtime wife,
I'm certainly living a ragtime life.

I got a ragtime dog and a ragtime cat
a ragtime piano in my ragtime flat,
wear ragtime clothes, from hat to shoes,
I read a paper called the "Ragtime News"
Got ragtime habits and I talk that way,
I sleep in ragtime and I rag all day,
got ragtime troubles with my ragtime wife,
I'm certainly living a ragtime life.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I'm Certainly Living The Ragtime Life 1900
Music by Robt. S.Roberts
Lyrics by Gene Jefferson
© 1900 by Sol Bloom
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 10 August 2006 at 11.11pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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