a 1922 popular song
Words and music by Percy Wenrich
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Everything today is syncopated
It’s too much for me
For I can’t figure it out
Don’t know what it’s all about
Sounds so easy when you hear ’em
Play it with a raggy band
But when I try to entertain myself
On my little baby grand
Chorus:
I get so all muddled up
Whenever I attempt to syncopate
I get excited a-tryin’ to count
’Til every note I seem to hate
I muddle too when I am dancing
Fall all over the floor
Trying to do steps that are new
But I never quit, I always yell for more
It has me puzzled to figure out
The raggy time they write today
But syncopation just hypnotizes me
So I just pound away
Mother and dad say I’m a nuisance
For when I rag that old piano
I get ’em going for I get muddled up
In every rag I play
- Any time that company is with me
Then I do my best
With some old classical strain
And believe me I entertain
When I play the “Melody in F”
I tell you, boy! I’m there
But when they ask for just a raggy rag
Then I’m all up in the air
Sung here by Fred Feild: