Oh That Navajo Rag

A popular song from 1911
Words by Harry Williams
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne

The sheet music:

Oh That Navajo Rag – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:

Oh_That_Navajo_Rag – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. What a celebration, on a reservation
    In New Mexico
    No more Injuns in their old time prance
    No more painting for a big war dance
    Chief is back from college
    With a lot of knowledge
    Big Chief Bounding Deer
    He bounded right into their dance one night
    And hollered, Oh see here
    You just all stand in line
    And learn a dance of mine

Chorus
Oh, oh, oh, that Navajo rag
That rag, that rag, that rag
Oh, oh, oh, that Navajo drag
That drag, that drag, that drag
Dance me all around the old tepee
All squaws look alike to me
Come, come, start that tom-tom some
Keep it up, keep it up, keep it up
Oh, oh, oh, that Navajo rag
That rag, that rag, that rag
Oh, oh, oh, that Navajo drag
That drag, that drag, that drag
Shake your moccasin and roll your eye
Tear my blanket, make my feathers fly
Whirl me, twirl me to that Navajo Rag

  1. Everybody’s crazy
    Crazy for a lazy, good old ragtime dance
    We were here before the other men
    Let’s have a rag about the Indian
    We have lost our cunning
    We’re not in the running
    We must be “the goat”
    But pass me her and we will massacre
    Some tunes the white men wrote
    No chief Tammany has anything on me