Raggedy Ann

A 1923 popular song.
Words by Anne Caldwell.
Music by Jerome Kern.


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. When I was just a tiny tot, with tousled head
    I had two pals with whom I dearly loved to play
    The girl lived in a dollhouse, close beside my bed
    Beneath her window ev’ry night the boy would say

Burthen
“My Raggedy Ann, come out when you can
Your Raggedy Andy has a plan
I’ve got a fliver sedan!
We’ll rattle off to find a ragtime cabaret
Where we can rag our raggy rags till break of day
Oo, Raggedy Ann, do say that you can
Come and dance with your Raggedy man
My RaggyAnn

  1. I love a lady who has black shoe-button eyes
    I love a lady with a ragbag in her head
    In a parade of dumb-bells she would take the prize
    But when it comes to ragtime she can knock ’em dead

Sung here by Fred Feild: