Alexander's Ragtime Band

Say, Al, you're a guest here today

Don't you think you oughta start this tune?

No, I don't think so, Bing, I may be a guest and all that

But I, I think you oughta start it

Well, it was written a little before my time

I'm afraid it might date me

Date you? Yeah

Don't tell me the first time you heard this song was when

Your mama had you on her lap? You know, listenin' to music

Oh, no, no, I came to the show on a Go-Devil

A Go-Devil? Yes. Well Bing, look, let's stop this kiddin'

I think you oughta start. No, you oughta start

No, you start. You think so? I think so. Well, if you insist

Come on and hear, come on and hear

Alexander's ragtime band

Come on and hear, come on and hear

'Bout the best band in the land

They can play a bugle call like you never heard before

So natural that you wanna go to war

That's just the best-est band, what am

Oh, honey lamb

Come on along, come on along

Let me take you by the hand

Up to the man, up to the man

Who's the leader of the band?

And if you care to hear the Swanee River

Played in ragtime

Come on and hear, come on and hear

Alexander's ragtime band

Say Al, that's the might 'Xander himself playin', ain't it?

Oh, yeah, that's him, ain't nobody else

Oh, he's a riverboat man

Riverboat? What do you know about riverboat?

Oh, I made many a happy buck on them riverboats

Playin' in a band? No, no, makin' for the hardware

Toot-toot. That's it

Come on and hear, come on and hear

Alexander's ragtime band

Come on and hear, come on and hear

It's the best band in the land

They can play a bugle call like you never heard before

That's just the best-est band, what am

Oh, honey lamb

Come on along, come on along

Let me take you by the hand

Up to the man, the mighty man, I'm talkin' 'bout the man

The leader of the band

And if you care to hear the Swanee River

Played in ragtime

Come on and hear, come on and hear

Alexander's ragtime band

Alexander's Ragtime Band