That Sundowner Rag 1912 'The Beauty Doctor'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 27 Aug 2004

What is that strain I hear
won't you please tell me dear
it's so fascinating makes you feel
as though you'd glide away,
glide away ride away to dreamland!
That's the Sundowner rag
that makes you feel so glad,
it's entrancing sets you dancing
listen I'll sing it dear,
that's it no body's near
for it's such a lovely melody...

That sweet Sundowner Rag,
that tune will never drag
King Billy says
that tune sounds plenty good to me,
Mine think et may 'em good
to ragtime Corroborree
like a Boomerang floats through the air
most everywhere
the Cookaburra, Magpie, and the Cockatoo,
the possum, Native Bear and the Kangaroo
all sing, all swing,
in time to that Sundowner Rag.

That sweet Sundowner Rag,
that tune will never drag
King Billy says
that tune sounds plenty good to me,
Mine think et may 'em good
to ragtime Corroborree
like a Boomerang floats through the air
most everywhere
the Cookaburra, Magpie, and the Cockatoo,
the possum, Native Bear and the Kangaroo
all sing, all swing,
in time to that Sundowner Rag.

They sing it way out back
where the Bushwackers track
swing their shoulders
to that tune
just like they do the grizzley bear,
in the air everywhere
you'll see them
and when the moon peeps out
birds and beasts all creep out,
sleepless feeling round them stealing,
they've got the latest prance,
all of them love to dance.
to the music of that sweet refrain...

That sweet Sundowner Rag,
that tune will never drag
King Billy says
that tune sounds plenty good to me,
Mine think et may 'em good
to ragtime Corroborree
like a Boomerang floats through the air
most everywhere
the Cookaburra, Magpie, and the Cockatoo,
the possum, Native Bear and the Kangaroo
all sing, all swing,
in time to that Sundowner Rag.

That sweet Sundowner Rag,
that tune will never drag
King Billy says
that tune sounds plenty good to me,
Mine think et may 'em good
to ragtime Corroborree
like a Boomerang floats through the air
most everywhere
the Cookaburra, Magpie, and the Cockatoo,
the possum, Native Bear and the Kangaroo
all sing, all swing,
in time to that Sundowner Rag.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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That Sundowner Rag 1912
Written by Les Coney
arranged by Fred Ireland
©1912 Melbourne : Loebel & Co.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 27 August 2004 at 14.55
in association with Doug Grierson
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date of publication is approximate.
Sung with great success throughout the Brennan Circuit
by Chais Zoli in Victor Princes revusical boom
'The Beauty Doctor'
available in an electronic version via the internet at
http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an10827201
courtesy of The National Library of Australia
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