Rap-Tap-A-Tap 1920 "What's In A Name"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 10 Sept 2007
2007

When I'm in doubt about something,
no matter what it may be,
my Ouija board is the one thing,
that has the answer for me;
it has mystic ways
of making spooks appear
when they're near,
I ask them all of my questions,
then of a sudden I hear.

Rap! TapaTap! TapaTap!
Comes a spooky little knock
like the tick of a clock
I can tell by the rapping
taptaptapping,
there in the air,
here and there,
rapping ev'rywhere they go,
Two knocks means "Yes"
and one little knock means "No"
so, whatever you want to know
let me suggest when you're dressed
in your nightie and your cap
that you get a little Ouija,
and wait for the spooks to
Rapatapatapatapatap.

Rap! TapaTap! TapaTap!
Comes a spooky little knock
like the tick of a clock
I can tell by the rapping
taptaptapping,
there in the air,
here and there,
rapping ev'rywhere they go,
Two knocks means "Yes"
and one little knock means "No"
so, whatever you want to know
let me suggest when you're dressed
in your nightie and your cap
that you get a little Ouija,
and wait for the spooks to
Rapatapatapatapatap.

There's someone I love a whole lot,
but when he's out of my sight,
I'm always anxious to know what
he's doing every night;
so I take my Ouija
turn the lights down low
when I know,
the spooks are near me,
I ask them,
and what they tell me is so.

Rap! TapaTap! TapaTap!
Comes a spooky little knock
like the tick of a clock
I can tell by the rapping
taptaptapping,
there in the air,
here and there,
rapping ev'rywhere they go,
Two knocks means "Yes"
and one little knock means "No"
so, whatever you want to know
let me suggest when you're dressed
in your nightie and your cap
that you get a little Ouija,
and wait for the spooks to
Rapatapatapatapatap.

Rap! TapaTap! TapaTap!
Comes a spooky little knock
like the tick of a clock
I can tell by the rapping
taptaptapping,
there in the air,
here and there,
rapping ev'rywhere they go,
Two knocks means "Yes"
and one little knock means "No"
so, whatever you want to know
let me suggest when you're dressed
in your nightie and your cap
that you get a little Ouija,
and wait for the spooks to
Rapatapatapatapatap.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Rap-Tap-A-Tap 1920
from "What's In A Name"
Music by Milton Ager
Lyrics by John Murray Anderson & Jack Yellen
© MCMXX by Leo Feist Inc.  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 10 September 2007
in associatiuon with Doug Grierson
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remembering my parents who married this day - 10 September 1938
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