The Ragtime Boarding House 1912

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Apr 2008
2008

Down at the house where I reside,
kept by a ragtime groom and bride,
ev'rybody has the ragtime craze,
never saw the beat in all my days,
the piano in the room near mine,
is playing rag most all the time,
and from ev'ry room upstairs
you will hear these ragtime airs:

Come on and hear,
come on and hear,
Mister Brown, Mister Brown
on his violin,
you will hear it night and morn
till you wish you'd not been born,
and they told me 'twas quiet as a mouse,
Turkey Trots, Grizzly Bears
also Bunny Hugs,
They will dance till they drive ev'rybody bugs,
Ev'rybody'as doin it, doin it, doing what?
That mysterious Rag ragaragarag
Rag ragarag
It's a Bear, It's a bear
It's a Bear, where, where?
In the Ragtime Boarding House.

The boarders practice ragtime talk,
and cultivate a ragtime walk,
you will hear the landlord proudly brag
ev'ry carpet in the house is rag,
all the children too must be in style,
and play with rag dolls all the while,
The parrot knows that Ragtime's King
from his cage he'll join and sing:

Come on and hear,
come on and hear,
Mister Brown, Mister Brown
on his violin,
you will hear it night and morn
till you wish you'd not been born,
and they told me 'twas quiet as a mouse,
Turkey Trots, Grizzly Bears
also Bunny Hugs,
They will dance till they drive ev'rybody bugs,
Ev'rybody'as doin it, doin it, doing what?
That mysterious Rag ragaragarag
Rag ragarag
It's a Bear, It's a bear
It's a Bear, where, where?
In the Ragtime Boarding House.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Ragtime Boarding House 1912
Music by Fred Hylands
Lyrics by Grant Gibson
© 1912 by Hylands & Gibson - New York City
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 22 April 2008 at 17.07
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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