RAGAMUFFIN ROMEO

(Mabel Wayne, Harry  Da Costa)
From the film 'King Of Jazz'.


As recorded by
Nat Star & His Band
V. Tom Barratt
Recorded 24th September 1930

Also recorded by:
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (V. Bing Crosby)
Jeanie Lang / George Chiles
Fred Astaire



A little song I'll sing to you
About the love of someone who
We called the Ragamuffin Romeo
He'd sigh and wail as lovers do
When thinking of his sweetie too
Poor little Ragamuffin Romeo
In dreams only they had ever met
And at night he'd awake
Oh so lonely for his Juliet
And then he would take
His little sack and hit the road
A-picking rags at each abode
Poor little Ragamuffin Romeo

(Musical Break)

In dreams only they had ever met
And at night he'd awake
Oh so lonely for his Juliet
And then he would take.
 
Transcribed from John Wright's 78 RPM Record Collection




(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - May 2013)