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Posted By: GUEST,MorwenEdhelwen1
20-Aug-13 - 10:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin)
Subject: Lyr Add: ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND (Irving Berlin)
This song has been mentioned in several threads but the lyrics haven't been added. So here they are.

ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
(Irving Berlin)

1. Oh ma honey, oh ma honey,
Better hurry and let's meander,
Ain't you goin', ain't you goin',
To the leader man, ragged meter man?
Oh ma honey, oh ma honey,
Let me take you to Alexander's
Grandstand, brass band,
Ain't you comin' along?

(CHORUS)
Come on and hear, come on and hear,
Alexander's ragtime band.
Come on and hear, come on and hear,
It's the best band in the land!
They can play a bugle call like you never heard before,
So natural that you want to go to war.
That's just the bestest band what am, my honey lamb.

Come on along, come on along,
Let me take you by the hand,
Up to the man, up to the man,
Who's the leader of the band.

And if you care to hear the 'Swanee River'
Played in ragtime,
Come on and hear, come on and hear,
Alexander's ragtime band.

2. Oh ma honey, oh ma honey,
There's a fiddle with notes that screeches,
Like a chicken, like a chicken,
And the clarinet,
Is a colored pet,
Come and listen, come and listen,
To a classical band what's peaches,
Come now, somehow,
Better hurry along!

(Chorus)

Published by Ted Snyder & Co, 1911, New York City.

Sheet music is at " the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection.

It can also be found at " Duke University's Historical American Sheet Music Digital Collection.