From “The Tivoli Follies”, 1917.
Words by Jamie Kelly.
Music by Ed. Hutchison.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Come my little baby
Come my little honey
Get aboard the ragtime train with me
It has the greatest little engine I know
With it’s raggy, raggy, raggy, raggy
Choo-ca choo-ca choo
Stop and look and listen
Stop and look and listen
Shuffle, get a move on, come with me
You’ll never want to get off again
But I know just what you’ll do
Oh baby, Oh honey
Watch your step and dance aboard with me
You’ll love it, you’ll love it
Please, oh please, oh come along with me
Just to have you dancing with me again
Just to have you cuddling up again
That dance, that dance aboard the ragtime train
Chorus
Start her up, start her up
Start her up, start her up
And get aboard the raggy rag time train
Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up
You’ll never get the happy chance again
Don’t you ever dare to get left behind
If you should miss it, oh, you’ll surely find
That you have lost the best chance of your life
Hear the bell, hear the bell
Hear the bell, hear the bell
Just listen to it ringing once again
Don’t you stop, don’t you stop
Don’t you stop, don’t you stop
And don’t you ever dare to miss that train
You’ll never want to go home again
When you’re dancing to that raggy refrain
Oh say, you’ll sway aboard the ragtime train
- You’re my little baby, you’re my little honey
Get aboard, don’t linger here with me
You’ll miss the finest little party you know
Where they rag-it, rag-it, rag-it, rag-it
Watch them where they go
Don’t you dare to linger
Don’t you dare to linger
Hustle, or you never can get on
The whistle goes and they’re off again
And soon they will be gone
Oh baby, oh honey
Get your grip and come along with me
Don’t miss it, don’t miss it
Come on and so happy we will be
For the engine’s puffing a raggy strain
The conductor’s ragging round again
Last call, last call aboard the ragtime train
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: