A popular song from 1922.
Words and music by Bill Bailey.
Arranged by Paul Behm.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- I know you’ve heard about the style men
Quite sure you must have heard of wild men
You’ve read of Tarzan of the Apes
“Who leaped from tree to tree just to get his “grapes”
And then you’ve heard of lazy “Jazz men”
The crazy dancing razz-ma-tazz men
Who tickle toe and shimmy around
But they have nothing on a man I’ve found
Chorus
Oh, Ragtime caveman of mine
Stone age, syncopator divine
And when he loves, he holds you tight
And when he gives a kiss he gives it right
Oh, Weird moaning “Pipes o’ Pan”
Have nothing on my primitive man
You can’t resist his sweet harmony
He’ll knock you stiff with a rag melody
When you hear him, you draw near him
Ragtime cave man of mine
- Way back in long and distant ages
Before the time of hist’ries pages
In prehistoric times they played
On little choppin’ bowls while the natives swayed
Once from a cave there came a dancer
A shrewd and foxy little prancer
Who vamped and danced her way from the start
Straight to the folds of his grandpa’s heart
Chorus
Oh, Ragtime caveman of mine
Stone age, syncopator divine
And when he loves, he holds you tight
And when he gives a kiss he gives it right
Oh, Weird moaning “Pipes o’ Pan”
Have nothing on my primitive man
When he starts playing his farewell tune
And says goodnight dear then I start to moan
If you leave me, it will grieve me
Ragtime cave man of mine
Sung here by Fred Feild: