{title: Alexander’s Ragtime Band}
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{meta: source https://www.jasonpaul.net/songs/alexanders-ragtime-band/}
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{c: Verse 1}
[E]Oh my honey, oh my [E7]honey [A]Better hurry[F#m7] and[B7]let's meander, [E]Ain't you goin', ain't you goin', [F#7]To the leader man, [B7]ragged meter man?
[E]Oh my honey,[E7]oh my honey [A]Let me take you to [F#m7]Alex[B7]ander's [E]Grand[E7]stand [A]brass[Edim7]band. [E]Ain't you[B7]comin' a[E]long?

{c: Chorus}
[E7]Come on and [A]hear, come on and hear. Alex[E7]ander's Ragtime [A]Band, Come on and [D]hear, come on and hear, It's the best band in the land
They can [A]play a bugle call like you never heard before, So natural that you want to go to war, [E]That's just [Edim7]the [B7]best-est band what [E]am, [E7]honey lamb
Come on a [A]long, come on along, Let me [E7]take you by the [A]hand, Up to the [D]man, up to the man, Who's the leader of the [D]band,
And if you[A7] care to hear the Swanee river [D]Played in [Adim7]ragtime, Come on and [A]hear, come on and hear [Adim7]Alex- [E7]ander's Ragtime [A]Band

{c: Verse 2}
[E]Oh ma honey, Oh ma [E7]honey,[A]There's a fiddle [F#m7]With[B7]notes that screeches, [E]Like a chicken, Like a chicken, [F#7]And the clarinet [B7]Is a colored pet,
[E]Come and listen, [E7]Come and listen [A]To a classi[F#m7]cal[B7]band what's peaches, [E]Come[E7]now,[A]Some[Edim7]how,[E]Better[B7]hurry a[E]long[E7]