The Rag-Time Barn Dance 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 24 December 2010
2010

When bands in far away lands
a native tone for dancing
start in to play
it only makes me homesick
just for music
from the Ragtime U.S.A.
But you must dance to them all
as 'round the world
thro' ev'ry country you whirl
before you really appreciate
a real American girl;
When the band strikes up
a Spanish tune
or some Parisian ditty,
don't say it's pretty,
and if Hungarian tunes
they play for you,
there's just one thing to do:

Go tell the band
to play a RagTime Barn Dance,
if you want to win
a girlie's heart!
Just command any band,
then her hand you demand,
and slowly glide,
side by side,
with a glide,
then a slide,
and she just can't help
but love you from the start:
Teach her some dancing a la Dixiana,
for a little syncopated spoon,
Glide away, when they play,
some hooray, U.S.A.
If you say "name the day,"
"Never nay," will she say,
When you're dancing to a
RagTime BarnDance Tune!

Go tell the band
to play a RagTime Barn Dance,
if you want to win
a girlie's heart!
Just command any band,
then her hand you demand,
and slowly glide,
side by side,
with a glide,
then a slide,
and she just can't help
but love you from the start:
Teach her some dancing a la Dixiana,
for a little syncopated spoon,
Glide away, when they play,
some hooray, U.S.A.
If you say "name the day,"
"Never nay," will she say,
When you're dancing to a
RagTime BarnDance Tune!

[Dance:]

You'll take your honey
and make her soon forget
she ever knew how to waltz
Because the barndance
is the only one
that really hasn't any faults.
Lead her where there's a piano
and a man who plays ragtime
in a manner that will charm her
so she just cannot
make her feet keep still;
Do the Dixie Dip,
The Memphis Slip,
The Alabama Sidestep,
The Coonville Glidestep,
But when the goodnight dance
you'd have them play,
There's just one thing to do:

Go tell the band
to play a RagTime Barn Dance,
if you want to win
a girlie's heart!
Just command any band,
then her hand you demand,
and slowly glide,
side by side,
with a glide,
then a slide,
and she just can't help
but love you from the start:
Teach her some dancing a la Dixiana,
for a little syncopated spoon,
Glide away, when they play,
some hooray, U.S.A.
If you say "name the day,"
"Never nay," will she say,
When you're dancing to a
RagTime BarnDance Tune!

Go tell the band
to play a RagTime Barn Dance,
if you want to win
a girlie's heart!
Just command any band,
then her hand you demand,
and slowly glide,
side by side,
with a glide,
then a slide,
and she just can't help
but love you from the start:
Teach her some dancing a la Dixiana,
for a little syncopated spoon,
Glide away, when they play,
some hooray, U.S.A.
If you say "name the day,"
"Never nay," will she say,
When you're dancing to a
RagTime BarnDance Tune!

[Dance:]

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Rag-Time Barn Dance 1910
Music by Silvio Hein
Lyrics by E.Ray Goetz
© 1910 by Maurice Shapiro - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 24 December 2010 at 15.45
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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