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Spaghetti Rag

Words by Dick Rogers, Music by George Lyons and Bob Yosco - 1910

Part 1:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
||: G7	-	C	-
G7	-	C	-
G7	-	C	-
A7	Dm	D7           G7	C  repeat part 1   :||
Part 2:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
||: F	-	Dm	-
G7	C7	Fdim	F
F	-	Dm	-
G	C7	F  F7  Fdim  Bbm	F  repeat part 2   :||
Part 3:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F          Am	Dm        F
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F  F7  Fdim  Bbm	F
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F          Am	Dm        F
Fdim	-	F	-
C7	-	F	G7
Part 4:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
G7	-	C	-
G7	-	C	-
G7	-	C	-
A7	Dm	D7           G7	C        (end)

16-beat intro. Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Part 1:

There's a new sen -sa -tion that is sweep -ing the land Mis -ter Joe Spa -ghet -ti and his rag -a -time band

Ev -'ry -bo -dy loves him and they think that he's grand Be -bop? Yop! yop!

When he plays the clar -in -et, he's mad as a loon On -ly knows one mel -o -dy but oh! what a tune

First you go zig -ge -ty then you go zag That's the Spa -ghet -ti Rag.

 

Part 2:

When Joe starts off with his beat You can't help tap -pin' your feet

It gets ya Up -sets ya Al -tho' it's corn -a -dee -corn

Just hear that mop -pi -ty mop No -bod -y wants him to stop

That la -zy That cra -zy horn

 

Part 3:

All at once his strange so -na -ta floats thru the air

The rhy -thm's rag -ged but oh! bro -ther, it's rare His kind -a jazz is com -in back, back, back, back,

Then you'll hear a queer ca -den -za ri -din the breeze

And when it hits you it will tic -kle your knees And you'll be jump -ing like a jack.

 

Part 4:

(Repeat of Part 1)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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