{"id":144,"date":"2018-06-28T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2023-05-10T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:43:11","slug":"any-rags","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/any-rags\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Rags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Disclaimer: This song is from a time when racial caricatures were used for comedy entertainment. Sheet Music Singer intends no malice by singing this song. It is presented in its original form as part of music history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a popular song from 1902<br>words and music by Thomas S. Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ragpicker was an independent trash collector. There is a Betty Boop cartoon that shows a Rag Man in action. He dealt in other people&#8217;s trash, rummage, and garbage. It was a form of recycling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Any-Rags.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Any Rags - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-958ee311-6245-4e73-80f0-9fb76d22b170\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Any-Rags.pdf\">Any Rags &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Any-Rags.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-958ee311-6245-4e73-80f0-9fb76d22b170\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accompaniment:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-cad7e350-96bd-4747-87a5-000f2c4b1f90\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Any-Rags.mid\">Any Rags &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Any-Rags.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-cad7e350-96bd-4747-87a5-000f2c4b1f90\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Did you ever hear the story of Ragged, Jagged Jack?<br>Here he comes down the street with a pack on his back<br>He comes in the morning, and he comes at night<br>And he gobbles up everything in sight<br>He wakes up the neighborhood for miles around<br>He&#8217;s a reg&#8217;lar alarm clock, always wound<br>He gets beneath your window when you try to get to sleep<br>And yells in a voice so loud and deep:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Any rags? Rags? Any rags, any bones, any bottles today<br>There&#8217;s a big black rag picker coming this way<br>Any rags? Rags? Any rags, any bones, any bottles today<br>It&#8217;s the same old story, in the same old way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. If you happen for to leave a thing out all night<br>You get up in the morn and it&#8217;s gone from yer sight<br>You&#8217;ll know then that Ragged Jack has been that way<br>He&#8217;s a very bad omen, people say<br>He stole all his furniture, he stole his wife<br>If he&#8217;d steal from his friend, he&#8217;d steal yer life<br>He never gets molested as he daily walks about<br>But things disappear when he yells out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung here by Fred Feild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3N_SpLFxkI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Disclaimer: This song is from a time when racial caricatures were used for comedy entertainment. Sheet Music Singer intends no malice by singing this song. It is presented in its original form as part of music history.] a popular song from 1902words and music by Thomas S. Allen The ragpicker was an independent trash collector. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/any-rags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Any Rags&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-2k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}