Oh That Navajo Rag 1909

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 12 Nov 2008
2008

What a celebration,
on a reservation,
in New Mexico,
no more injuns
in their old time prance,
no more painting for a big war dance.
Chief is back from college
with a lot of knowledge,
Big Chief Bounding Deer,
he bounded right into their dance one night
and hollered, Oh see here!
You just all stand in line
and learn a dance of mine:

Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Dance me all around the old tepee,
all squaws look alike to me
Come, come, start that tomtom going some,
keep it up, keep it up, keep it up,
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Shake your mocassin and roll your eye
tear my blanket,
make my feathers fly,
Whirl me, twirl me,
to that Navajo Rag.

Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Dance me all around the old tepee,
all squaws look alike to me
Come, come, start that tomtom going some,
keep it up, keep it up, keep it up,
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Shake your mocassin and roll your eye
tear my blanket,
make my feathers fly,
Whirl me, twirl me,
to that Navajo Rag.

Ev'rybody's crazy,
Crazy for a lazy
good old ragtime dance.
We were here before the other men
Let's have a rag about the Indian.
We have lost our cunning
we're not in the running,
we must be the goat
but pass me her,
and we will massacre
some tunes the white men wrote.
No chief in Tamany
has anything on me:

Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Dance me all around the old tepee,
all squaws look alike to me
Come, come, start that tomtom going some,
keep it up, keep it up, keep it up,
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Shake your mocassin and roll your eye
tear my blanket,
make my feathers fly,
Whirl me, twirl me,
to that Navajo Rag.

Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Dance me all around the old tepee,
all squaws look alike to me
Come, come, start that tomtom going some,
keep it up, keep it up, keep it up,
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo Rag.
Oh, Oh, Oh that Navajo drag!
Shake your mocassin and roll your eye
tear my blanket,
make my feathers fly,
Whirl me, twirl me,
to that Navajo Rag.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Oh That Navajo Rag 1909
Music by Egbert van Alstyne
Lyrics by Harry Williams
© MCMXI by Jerome H.Remick & Co. - New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 12 November 2008 at 15.15
in association with Veda Meyer-Casterns
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