Alexander's Ragtime Band 2 Verse
2 Verse Version
Key: C
Words and Music by Irving Berlin
1911

Chords and lyrics provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 3/15/19
File Updated 01/10/2021

Verse:

G                  G7
Oh my honey, oh my honey
C            Am7 D7
Better hurry and let's meander
G
Ain't you goin' ,ain't you goin'
A7                 D7
To the leader man, ragged meter man?

G            G7
Oh my honey, oh my honey
C                  Am7 D7
Let me take you to Alexander's
G     G7     C     Dbdim
Grand stand, brass band.
G         D7       G     G7
Ain't you comin' a long?

Chorus:

            C
Come on and hear, come on and hear
    G7              C    CM7C7
Alexander's Ragtime Band
          F
Come on a hear, come on a hear
It's the best band in the land
         C
They can play a bugle call like you never heard before
Am7
So natural that you want to go to war
D7                                 G   G7
That's just the best-est band what am,  my honey lamb

         C
Come on along, come on along
       G7              C   CM7C7
Let me take you by the hand
          F
Up to the man, up to the man
Who's the leader of the band
           C                        C7
And if you  care to hear the Swanee river
F         Gbdim
Played in ragtime
          C
Come on a hear, come on a hear
    G7                    C
Alexander's Ragtime  Band

Verse 2:

G                 G7
Oh ma honey,Oh ma honey,
C                Am7  D7
There's a fiddle With notes that screeches
G                              A7
Like a chicken, Like a chicken,And the clarinet
D7
Is a colored pet,

G                G7
Come and listen, Come and listen
C           Am7 D7
To a classi cal band what's peaches
G    G7  C    Dbdim
Come now,Some how,
G      D7      G   G7
Better hurry a long

Chorus repeat:
C


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