A 1923 popular song.
Words by Anne Caldwell.
Music by Jerome Kern.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When I was just a tiny tot, with tousled head
I had two pals with whom I dearly loved to play
The girl lived in a dollhouse, close beside my bed
Beneath her window ev’ry night the boy would say
Burthen
“My Raggedy Ann, come out when you can
Your Raggedy Andy has a plan
I’ve got a fliver sedan!
We’ll rattle off to find a ragtime cabaret
Where we can rag our raggy rags till break of day
Oo, Raggedy Ann, do say that you can
Come and dance with your Raggedy man
My RaggyAnn
- I love a lady who has black shoe-button eyes
I love a lady with a ragbag in her head
In a parade of dumb-bells she would take the prize
But when it comes to ragtime she can knock ’em dead
Sung here by Fred Feild: