Salty Dog Rag Sheet Music

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Salty Dog Rag

Away down yonder in the state of Arkansas
where my great-grandpa met my great-grandma,
they drink apple cider and they get on a jag
and they dance all night to the Salty Dog Rag.
They play an old fiddle like you never heard before.
They play the only tune that they ever did know.
It's a ragtime ditty and the rhythm don't drag,
now here's the way you dance to the Salty Dog Rag:

Chorus:
One foot front, drag it back,
then you start to ball the jack.
You shake and you break and then you sag,
if your partner zigs you're supposed to zag.
Your heart is light, you tap your feet
in rhythm with that ragtime beat.
(Just) pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
and dance all night to the Salty Dog Rag.

Away down South 'neath the old Southern moon
the possum's up a tree and the hounds treed a coon.
They'll hitch up the buggy to a broken down nag
and go out dancing to the Salty Dog Rag.
They tune up the fiddle and they rosin up the bow.
They strike a C chord on the old banjo
and holler hang on 'cause we ain't gonna drag
'cause here's the way you dance
to the Salty Dog Rag.

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Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss Sheet Music

Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

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This is a fun old time tune. Here are the words to the chorus and two of my favorite verses:

Fly around my pretty little miss 

Fly around my daisy 

Fly around my pretty little miss 

You almost drive me crazy

How old are you my pretty little miss

How old are you my honey?

If I don't die of a broken heart

I'll be sixteen next Sunday

Will you marry me, my pretty little miss

Will you marry me, good lookin'?

I'll marry you, but I won't do

Your washin' or your cookin'!

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Redwing Sheet Music

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Words to this tune by Woodie Guthrie:

Union Maid

There once was a union maid, she never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.
She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys come 'round
She always stood her ground.

Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union, I'm sticking to the union.
Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die.

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