The Ragtime College Girl 1910 'The Fascinating Widow'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 25 July 2004

If you try to be all dignity
your life will be a bore;
always be at ease, act as you please,
the world will like you more.
To the shy coquette the minuet
is just the proper thing;
but nowadays Dame Fashion
says you should do a ragtime swing.

You don't mean to tell me that
you never did that dance from Carolina?
I won't brag the bearest rag is fine,
but oh! this dance is so much finer.
Love is love in almost any clime,
down below the Mason Dixon line,
you'll find every little movement
has a meaning Oh!
Don't you know it's wrong for you to
waste your life for just an old diploma?
You can find more fun in just one minute
in that dance from Oklahoma,
Work makes Jack dull
is an old time saying,
learn to do some swinging and some swaying,
if you want to be a Ragtime College Girl.

You don't mean to tell me that
you never did that dance from Carolina?
I won't brag the bearest rag is fine,
but oh! this dance is so much finer.
Love is love in almost any clime,
down below the Mason Dixon line,
you'll find every little movement
has a meaning Oh!
Don't you know it's wrong for you to
waste your life for just an old diploma?
You can find more fun in just one minute
in that dance from Oklahoma,
Work makes Jack dull
is an old time saying,
learn to do some swinging and some swaying,
if you want to be a Ragtime College Girl.

Now you can't compare the Maiden's Prayer
to something really smart;
you'll hear Melba sing some mournful thing
and still you'll call it art.
When a lively strain gets on your brain
you'll hum it all day long;
your feet keep time to every rhyme
of a catchy ragtime song.

You don't mean to tell me that
you never did that dance from Carolina?
I won't brag the bearest rag is fine,
but oh! this dance is so much finer.
Love is love in almost any clime,
down below the Mason Dixon line,
you'll find every little movement
has a meaning Oh!
Don't you know it's wrong for you to
waste your life for just an old diploma?
You can find more fun in just one minute
in that dance from Oklahoma,
Work makes Jack dull
is an old time saying,
learn to do some swinging and some swaying,
if you want to be a Ragtime College Girl.

You don't mean to tell me that
you never did that dance from Carolina?
I won't brag the bearest rag is fine,
but oh! this dance is so much finer.
Love is love in almost any clime,
down below the Mason Dixon line,
you'll find every little movement
has a meaning Oh!
Don't you know it's wrong for you to
waste your life for just an old diploma?
You can find more fun in just one minute
in that dance from Oklahoma,
Work makes Jack dull
is an old time saying,
learn to do some swinging and some swaying,
if you want to be a Ragtime College Girl.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Ragtime College Girl 1910
Lyrics by S.M.Lewis
Music by Kerry Mills
© 1910 by F.A.Mills
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 25 July 2004 at 23.30
in association with Doug Grierson
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As Sung by Julian Eltinge in A.H. Woods New Musical Play
The Fascinating Widow
Words by E. Ray Goetz. Music by Kerry Mills.
Kerry Mills Publication: New York: F.A. Mills, 122 West 36th St., 1910.
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