No Tengo

Michigan Rag

Everybody do the Michigan Rag Everybody likes the Michigan Rag Every Mame and Jane and Ruth From Weehawken to Duluth Slide, ride, glide the Michigan Stomp, romp, pomp the MichiganJump, clump, pump the Michigan Rag That lovin' rag! |

Hello! ma baby, Hello! Ma honey, Hello! ma ragtime gal.
Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart’s on fire!
If you refuse me, Honey, you’ll lose me,then you’ll be left alone;
Oh baby, telephone and tell me I’m your own.
Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello there.

Come back to Erin, Mavourneen, Mavourneen;
Come back, Aroon, to the land of my birth;Come with the shamrocks and Spring-time, Mavourneen,
And its Kilarney shall ring with our mirth.

Sure, when we lent ye to beautiful England,
Little we thought of the lone winter days,
Littlewe thought of the hush of the star shine
Over the mountain, the bluffs and the brays!

[REFRAIN sung after each verse]
Then come back to Erin, Mavourneen, Mavourneen,
Come back again to theland of thy birth.
Come back to Erin, Mavourneen, Mavourneen,
And its Kilarney shall ring with our mirth.

Over the green sea, Mavourneen, Mavourneen,
Long shone the while sail that bore theeaway;
Riding the white waves that fair Summer mornin',
Just like a Mayflow'r afloat on the bay.

O, but my heart sank when clouds came between us,
Like a grey curtain the rain falling down,Hid from my sad eyes the path o'er the ocean,
Far, far away where my Colleen had flown.

O may the angels, O wakin' and sleepin',
Watch o'er my bird in the land far away;
And it's mypray'rs will consign to their keepin'
Care o' my jewel by night and by day.

When by the fireside I watch the bright embers,
Then all my heart flies to England and thee,
Cravin' to know if mydarlin' remembers,
Or if her thoughts may be crossin' to me.

There's just one fellow for me in this world
Harry's his name, that's what I claim
Why for every fellow there must be a girl
I've...