Another Rag

A raggy rag from 1911
Words by D. A. Esrom (Morse spelled backwards)
Music by Theodore Morse

The sheet music:

Another Rag – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Another_Rag – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

What’s that tune I’m hearing ev’ry where?
What’s that sound afloating on the air?
What’s that music all the brass bands play?
Hear it in the morning ev’ry night and day.
‘Taint the music Mister Wagner wrote,
Got a funny, sneaky, minor note,
If you ask what they are playing
Ev’rybody will be saying,
“It’s another rag, that’s all!”

Chorus
Another rag, another raggy rag,
Another tune to set you spoony soon,
Another crazy tune, another lazy tune,
It’s a slippy, sippy, creepy, sleepy “get you going” rag.
Another strain, another raggy strain,
A hum and buzz just like a Pullman train.
Stop! (stop) Look! (look)
Come on and listen,
That’s it! (That’s what)
Don’t you know what that is?
Why, that’s another rag, a raggy rag.

Verse 2
That’s some tune it’s got some feeling too.
You don’t know just what has happened to you.
Starts you jumping like a big jumping Jack.
Sending chills a running up and down your back.
It’s a “lovey dovey” sort of a strain.
Makes you do things that you can’t explain.
When the violins are scaping,
Then you’ll know there’s no escaping,
From another raggy rag.

Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: