That Ragtime Dinner-Time Band 1913

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 17 Sep 2008
2008

At a ragtime restaurant
it's all sublime,
there's a ragtime dinnertime band.
When your lunch you're eating
you can keep in time
to that ragtime dinnertime band.
If a steak you should take
and begin to eat,
you will find you're inclined
just to tap your feet,
for the ragtime makes you
shuffle in your seat.
It's a treat!
It's a treat!
It's a treat!

Oh, that dinnertime!
That ragtime dinnertime!
Fiddle up, fiddle up,
right in the middle of your meals,
and you get indigestion
while you're chewing it,
the band plays "Ev'rybody's doing it,"
You eat your chop to the "Kangaroo Hop,"
You feel suffocating
but they will not stop
that grand, grand ragtime dinnertime band.

Oh, that dinnertime!
That ragtime dinnertime!
Fiddle up, fiddle up,
right in the middle of your meals,
and you get indigestion
while you're chewing it,
the band plays "Ev'rybody's doing it,"
You eat your chop to the "Kangaroo Hop,"
You feel suffocating
but they will not stop
that grand, grand ragtime dinnertime band.

All the waiters seem to do a Turkey Trot
to that ragtime dinnertime band,
and they're ever ready for a tip, eh, what?
They're a ragtime dinnertime hand.
Now, the food's very rude that they serve you there,
Chickens prance to the dance of the Grizzly Bear,
and the sausage too will try to parlez vous
to the rare raggy air playing there.

Oh, that dinnertime!
That ragtime dinnertime!
Fiddle up, fiddle up,
right in the middle of your meals,
and you get indigestion
while you're chewing it,
the band plays "Ev'rybody's doing it,"
You eat your chop to the "Kangaroo Hop,"
You feel suffocating
but they will not stop
that grand, grand ragtime dinnertime band.

Oh, that dinnertime!
That ragtime dinnertime!
Fiddle up, fiddle up,
right in the middle of your meals,
and you get indigestion
while you're chewing it,
the band plays "Ev'rybody's doing it,"
You eat your chop to the "Kangaroo Hop,"
You feel suffocating
but they will not stop
that grand, grand ragtime dinnertime band.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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That Ragtime Dinner-Time Band 1913
words and music by Wilfrid Chandler & Will E.Haines
© MCMXIII by Francis, Day & Hunter - U.S.A.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 17 September 2008 at 13.20
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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