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Spaghetti Rag

Words by Dick Rogers, Music by George Lyons and Bob Yosco - 1910

Part 1:
||: G7	-	C	-
G7	-	C	-
G7	-	C	-
A7	Dm	D7           G7	C  repeat part 1   :||
Part 2:
||: F	-	Dm	-
G7	C7	Fdim	F
F	-	Dm	-
G	C7	F  F7  Fdim  Bbm	F  repeat part 2   :||
Part 3:
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F          Am	Dm        F
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F  F7  Fdim  Bbm	F
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F          Am	Dm        F
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F	G7  (repeat part 1)

16-beat intro. Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Play Parts 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1.

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Part 1:

There's a new sensation that is sweeping the land, Mister Joe Spaghetti and his ragatime band,

Ev'rybody loves him and they think that he's grand, Bebop? Yop! yop!

When he plays the clarinet, he's mad as a loon, Only knows one melody but oh! what a tune,

First you go ziggety then you go zag, That's the Spaghetti Rag.

 

Part 2:

When Joe starts off with his beat, You can't help tappin' your feet,

It gets ya, Upsets ya, Altho' it's cornadeecorn,

Just hear that moppity mop, Nobody wants him to stop,

That lazy, That crazy horn.

 

Part 3:

All at once his strange sonata floats thru the air,

The rhythm's ragged but oh! brother, it's rare, His kinda jazz is comin back, back, back, back.

Then you'll hear a queer cadenza ridin the breeze,

And when it hits you it will tickle your knees, And you'll be jumping like a jack.

 

(Repeat Part 1)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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