| Won’t you play some simple melody
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| Like my mother sang to me
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| One with a good old-fashioned harmony
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| Play some simple melody
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| Musical demon, set your honey a-dreaming, won’t you play me some rag
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| Just change that classical nag to some sweet beautiful drag
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| If you will play from a copy of a tune that is choppy you’ll get all my applause
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| And that is simply because I want to listen to rag
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| Play for me
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| That good old-fashioned harmony
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| Oh, won’t you play for me
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| A simple melody
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| Play from a copy of a tune that is choppy
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| You’ll get all of my applause because
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| I want to rag it
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| Ragtime melody |