Ragtime In Colonial Days 1917

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 1 Dec 2008
2008

Many say in the olden day
ragtime strains were quite unknown,
but I've listened to the ones we do
and to me the same are shown.
Perhaps we step in a diff'rent way,
with a little skip
once again I say
you watch them sway
to a syncopated dip.

Ragtime in Colonial days,
Ragtime in those Washington ways;
dainty, quainty minuet Miss,
hands and lips were then made to kiss,
Lovers made of dancing a bliss.
Music in the old golden days,
Dancing in the oldfashioned ways;
One, two, three, four,
bend your knee,
bow and then around you see,
Ragtime in colonial days.

Ragtime in Colonial days,
Ragtime in those Washington ways;
dainty, quainty minuet Miss,
hands and lips were then made to kiss,
Lovers made of dancing a bliss.
Music in the old golden days,
Dancing in the oldfashioned ways;
One, two, three, four,
bend your knee,
bow and then around you see,
Ragtime in colonial days.

Washington and his Martha too,
if they could see steps we do,
they would figure out without a doubt
syncopated steps quite new.
Perhaps they'd trot
the old gavotte
to some rag so free,
for Washington,
he danced just one
around the cherry tree.

Ragtime in Colonial days,
Ragtime in those Washington ways;
dainty, quainty minuet Miss,
hands and lips were then made to kiss,
Lovers made of dancing a bliss.
Music in the old golden days,
Dancing in the oldfashioned ways;
One, two, three, four,
bend your knee,
bow and then around you see,
Ragtime in colonial days.

Ragtime in Colonial days,
Ragtime in those Washington ways;
dainty, quainty minuet Miss,
hands and lips were then made to kiss,
Lovers made of dancing a bliss.
Music in the old golden days,
Dancing in the oldfashioned ways;
One, two, three, four,
bend your knee,
bow and then around you see,
Ragtime in colonial days.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Ragtime In Colonial Days 1917
Music by Lucien Denni
Lyrics by Gwynne Denni
© MCMXVII by Lucien Denni Music Co. - Kansas City, Mo.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 1 December 2008 at 14.18
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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