Oh That Funny Rag 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Aug 2005

Mose Elias was some pianist
My but that boy could play,
He don't know nothin' but classical tunes
just plays rag the livelong day.
Now there's no sense to Moses music
he just jumps here and there
when he's in the parlor playing for me
I just can't help but stare
and some times when he's playing
I find myself a saying.

Oh that funny rag,
it is a honey rag,
it is the money rag,
it's such a sunny rag
while the left hand don't know
what the right hand is doing
Oh babe that's a musical wooing,
where you hesitate
start off again,
wait a while,
go ahead right on the black keys, white keys,
white keys, black keys,
Oh but that's a funny,
Gee but that's a funny
My but that's a funny rag.

Oh that funny rag,
it is a honey rag,
it is the money rag,
it's such a sunny rag
while the left hand don't know
what the right hand is doing
Oh babe that's a musical wooing,
where you hesitate
start off again,
wait a while,
go ahead right on the black keys, white keys,
white keys, black keys,
Oh but that's a funny,
Gee but that's a funny
My but that's a funny rag.

I never shall forget last Tuesday
'twas Pill Jone's wedding day
The organist took sick
with chills and fever
so they asked Mose to step in and play.
Ev'rything was lovely till Mose went to sleep
then woke up with a start
when he started in to play rag
it nearly broke my heart.
For the bride and groom were prancing
and the parson he was dancing.

Oh that funny rag,
it is a honey rag,
it is the money rag,
it's such a sunny rag
while the left hand don't know
what the right hand is doing
Oh babe that's a musical wooing,
where you hesitate
start off again,
wait a while,
go ahead right on the black keys, white keys,
white keys, black keys,
Oh but that's a funny,
Gee but that's a funny
My but that's a funny rag.

Oh that funny rag,
it is a honey rag,
it is the money rag,
it's such a sunny rag
while the left hand don't know
what the right hand is doing
Oh babe that's a musical wooing,
where you hesitate
start off again,
wait a while,
go ahead right on the black keys, white keys,
white keys, black keys,
Oh but that's a funny,
Gee but that's a funny
My but that's a funny rag.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Oh That Funny Rag 1910
Lyrics by Bobby Heath - Music by Gus Benkhart
© MCMX by Leo Feist, Inc., New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 26 August 2005 at 10.31
in association with Doug Grierson
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