Serenade Me Sadie 1912

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 7 Jul 2008
2008

Sadie Klein,
voice a number nine,
left her happy home
to study op'ra grand,
went to sunny Spain
but came back again,
'cause the language there
she couldn't understand.
When her sweetheart Abie Schwartz
found out she was in town,
He put on his full dress suit,
high hat, and called around
Sadie in the parlor
was singing Traviata,
Abie hollered stop her
I don't care for Op'ra.

Serenade me, Sadie,
with a ragtime song,
Give me something, baby,
that won't last so long.
Make for em a google eye,
throw the shoulders way up high,
Sing about the Swanee River
make sure that you shake and shiver.
Snap the fingers
like they do in 'Frisco Town,
Holler, oh you bear cats!
Bend yourself way down.
Sing Abie, look a here,
look a there, come along.
Serenade me Sadie,
with a ragtime song.

Serenade me, Sadie,
with a ragtime song,
Give me something, baby,
that won't last so long.
Make for em a google eye,
throw the shoulders way up high,
Sing about the Swanee River
make sure that you shake and shiver.
Snap the fingers
like they do in 'Frisco Town,
Holler, oh you bear cats!
Bend yourself way down.
Sing Abie, look a here,
look a there, come along.
Serenade me Sadie,
with a ragtime song.

Sadie Klein,
had a wedding fine.
Married Abie,
and that night at halfpast nine,
Husband got a note
that some girlie wrote
said: "Come hear a song
that's called the ragtime goat."
Abie yelled,
if that's the case,
I'll have to leave at once.
Sadie cried, Oi Abie please,
don't be a ragtime dunce.
Then she sang a yoodle
and Abe went off his noodle,
sounds like a Kioodle
stop or I'll skidoodle.

Serenade me, Sadie,
with a ragtime song,
Give me something, baby,
that won't last so long.
Make for em a google eye,
throw the shoulders way up high,
Sing about the Swanee River
make sure that you shake and shiver.
Snap the fingers
like they do in 'Frisco Town,
Holler, oh you bear cats!
Bend yourself way down.
Sing Abie, look a here,
look a there, come along.
Serenade me Sadie,
with a ragtime song.

Serenade me, Sadie,
with a ragtime song,
Give me something, baby,
that won't last so long.
Make for em a google eye,
throw the shoulders way up high,
Sing about the Swanee River
make sure that you shake and shiver.
Snap the fingers
like they do in 'Frisco Town,
Holler, oh you bear cats!
Bend yourself way down.
Sing Abie, look a here,
look a there, come along.
Serenade me Sadie,
with a ragtime song.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
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Serenade Me Sadie 1912
Music by Bert Grant
Lyrics by Joe Young
© MCMXII by Jerome H.Remick & Co. - New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 7 July 2008 at 14.33
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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