The Music Box Rag 1912

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Sep 2008
2008

It's not a tune like Traumerei
or the Cavalier Rusticana,
It sounds like dawn of Fourth of July
or a prize fight on a piano,
there's not a word about a Southern moon,
it's not a high class op'ra tune,
it sounds like a music box out on a jag,
but it certainly is some rag.

Start right on a playing honey,
Don't you stop making harmony,
Chase your fingers from the bottom
to the top,
That's the tune for me.
Tickle them and tease them,
touch them tenderly,
Don't let your fingers lag,
Just be careful or you'll lose me, honey,
Better not refuse me,
for that wrist, twist, can't resist,
Play that Music Box Rag.

Start right on a playing honey,
Don't you stop making harmony,
Chase your fingers from the bottom
to the top,
That's the tune for me.
Tickle them and tease them,
touch them tenderly,
Don't let your fingers lag,
Just be careful or you'll lose me, honey,
Better not refuse me,
for that wrist, twist, can't resist,
Play that Music Box Rag.

It takes me back to days of old,
when I listened with rapt attention,
To all those songs that joyfully rolled
out of that new fangled invention.
I hear the notes of "Home Sweet Home" again,
I hear that dear "Ben Bolt" refrain,
I love ev'ry note of that song box of mine,
Won't you play it for "Auld Lang Syne."

Start right on a playing honey,
Don't you stop making harmony,
Chase your fingers from the bottom
to the top,
That's the tune for me.
Tickle them and tease them,
touch them tenderly,
Don't let your fingers lag,
Just be careful or you'll lose me, honey,
Better not refuse me,
for that wrist, twist, can't resist,
Play that Music Box Rag.

Start right on a playing honey,
Don't you stop making harmony,
Chase your fingers from the bottom
to the top,
That's the tune for me.
Tickle them and tease them,
touch them tenderly,
Don't let your fingers lag,
Just be careful or you'll lose me, honey,
Better not refuse me,
for that wrist, twist, can't resist,
Play that Music Box Rag.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Music Box Rag 1912
Words and Music by Arthur J.Jackson
© 1912 by Arthur J.Jackson
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 26 September 2008 at 19.22
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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