Nothing Like Rag-time After All 1914

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 25 Oct 2006
2006

The tune nowadays
ev'ry orchestra plays is ragtime.
The songs that we sing
with their lilt
and their swing
are ragtime.
folks who used to go home to bed
stay up all night dancing instead
to ragtime, that glorious ragtime,
what makes you glad
when you're sad or feel bad
it's ragtime,
what makes you dance
if you once get a chance
it's ragtime,
hear that band how they love to play,
night and day HipHooray!
Both your shoulders begin to sway
doing that ragtime twirl.

Just watch them glide.
Just watch them slide.
You'll put your arm around a beautiful girl,
she'll sling to you
and soon your heart's in a whirl
Oh, my that wonderful ragtime,
who said it's dead.
I'll prove instead.
The tune they all cheer far and near is ragtime,
'go round the world,
all you'll hear is ragtime,
ragtime is King.

Just watch them glide.
Just watch them slide.
You'll put your arm around a beautiful girl,
she'll sling to you
and soon your heart's in a whirl
Oh, my that wonderful ragtime,
who said it's dead.
I'll prove instead.
The tune they all cheer far and near is ragtime,
'go round the world,
all you'll hear is ragtime,
ragtime is King.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano
piano
piano
piano
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Nothing Like Rag-time After All 1914
Music by Milton Lusk
Lyrics by R.H.Burnside
© MCMXIV by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 24 October 2006 at 7.44pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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