He's A Rag Picker 1914 Irving Berlin

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 28 Jul 2002

Down in Alabama where the cotton grows,
lives a funny fellow by the name of Mose,
he hasn't anybody he can pick upon,
so he picks on a grand piano;
Morning, noon and night
you'll find him picking rags,
I don't mean the kind of rags they put in bags,
he doesn't own a junk shop,
just the same.

He's a Rag Picker, a rag picker,
all the live long day,
he bangs upon the piano keys,
in search of raggy melodies,
all day he's at the ivories,
and while he dozes he composes,
Mister Moses makes an ordinairy ditty,
sound so pretty, like nobody else.
Most any time of the day,
you'll find him picking away,
he's a rag picker, a rag picker,
a Ragtime picking man.

He's a Rag Picker, a rag picker,
all the live long day,
he bangs upon the piano keys,
in search of raggy melodies,
all day he's at the ivories,
and while he dozes he composes,
Mister Moses makes an ordinairy ditty,
sound so pretty, like nobody else.
Most any time of the day,
you'll find him picking away,
he's a rag picker, a rag picker,
a Ragtime picking man.

Moses' father told me that upon the morn,
when his little piano playing boy was born,
they didn't have a cradle
they could put him in,
so he slept on the grand piano;
In a week they found him there
upon his knees,
chewing on the highly polished piano keys,
that very day his father
Loudly cried...

He's a Rag Picker, a rag picker,
all the live long day,
he bangs upon the piano keys,
in search of raggy melodies,
all day he's at the ivories,
and while he dozes he composes,
Mister Moses makes an ordinairy ditty,
sound so pretty, like nobody else.
Most any time of the day,
you'll find him picking away,
he's a rag picker, a rag picker,
a Ragtime picking man.

He's a Rag Picker, a rag picker,
all the live long day,
he bangs upon the piano keys,
in search of raggy melodies,
all day he's at the ivories,
and while he dozes he composes,
Mister Moses makes an ordinairy ditty,
sound so pretty, like nobody else.
Most any time of the day,
you'll find him picking away,
he's a rag picker, a rag picker,
a Ragtime picking man.

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He's A Rag Picker 1914 Irving Berlin
by Irving Berlin
copyright MCMXIV by Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co
and in London by B. Feldman and Co.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Sunday 28 July 2002 at 10.36
in association with Doug Grierson
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sung in the UK by 'The Two Bobs'
Bob Adams and Bob Alden
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