Raggy Military Tune 1912

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 December 2010
2010

Here they come,
here they come,
Goodness honey
don't you hear
the fife and drum,
Measured beat,
music sweet,
with each strain
my heart grows bolder
now I want to be a soldier,
Can't you hear?
Can't you hear?
That raggy military tune
they're playing dear
I declare here and there,
I'll march behind them ev'rywhere,

When the cannons roar,
when the bullets pour,
in the rattle of the battle
let me go to war;
Upon the fighting line
I'm always be on time,
I'll be the man in front
and not the man behind,
Give me a suit of blue,
give me a rifle too
then you'll have another hero soon.
If they play that airy
syncopated merry
Raggy military tune.

When the cannons roar,
when the bullets pour,
in the rattle of the battle
let me go to war;
Upon the fighting line
I'm always be on time,
I'll be the man in front
and not the man behind,
Give me a suit of blue,
give me a rifle too
then you'll have another hero soon.
If they play that airy
syncopated merry
Raggy military tune.

That trombone,
has some tone,
Say ain't that enough
to make a fool leave home,
War or not,
gal I've got,
to be right
when the horns are tootin'
I don't care
if they start shootin'
Night or day,
in the fray,
I will be a hero
if the band will play
Draggy rag
raggy drag,
I'll be a credit to the flag.

When the cannons roar,
when the bullets pour,
in the rattle of the battle
let me go to war;
Upon the fighting line
I'm always be on time,
I'll be the man in front
and not the man behind,
Give me a suit of blue,
give me a rifle too
then you'll have another hero soon.
If they play that airy
syncopated merry
Raggy military tune.

When the cannons roar,
when the bullets pour,
in the rattle of the battle
let me go to war;
Upon the fighting line
I'm always be on time,
I'll be the man in front
and not the man behind,
Give me a suit of blue,
give me a rifle too
then you'll have another hero soon.
If they play that airy
syncopated merry
Raggy military tune.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Raggy Military Tune 1912
Music by Bestor & Roberts
Lyrics by Roger Lewis
© MCMXII by Roger Lewis, Chicago, Illinois
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 22 December 2010 at 22.17
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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