Any Rags?
written by thomas allen
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ANY RAGS? - sung by Billy Murray as Bimbo, and others
ANY RAGS? (TALKARTOONS) 1932 Any Rags is a 1902 ragtime song composed by Thomas Allen, and popularized by a 1903 recording by popular comic singer Arthur Collins. In 1932, the song lends it title and appears in a Talkartoon short starring Betty Boop, Bimbo and Koko the Clown. It was the first time Betty Boop appeared as completely human, after gradually developing out of her anthropomorphic dog form over the previous year.
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1903
ARTHUR COLLINS |
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1903
COLUMBIA BAND |
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1903
GILMORE BAND |
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1904
WILL F. DENNY |
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1913
ARTHUR COLLINS (1913 VERSION) |
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19??
PETE HAMPTON & LAURA BOWMAN (VERSION 1677) |
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19??
BURT SHEPARD |
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1938
BOB HOWARD |
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1945
WOODEN JOE NICHOLAS |
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19??
PAPA LAINE'S CHILDREN |
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20??
(RAGTIME PIANO) |
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ANY RAGS?
Did you ever hear the story of Ragged, Jagged Jack?
Here he comes down the street with a pack on his back.
He comes in the morning and he comes at night,
and he gobbles up every thing in sight,
He wakes up the neighborhood for miles around,
he's regular alarm clock, always wound.
He gets beneath your window when you try to get to sleep,
and he yells in a voice so loud and deep,
Chorus:
Any Rags? Any Rags? Any Rags,
any bones any Bottles Today,
There's a big black rag picker coming this way,
Any Rags? Any Rags? Any Rags
any bones, any bottles today, it's the same old story
in the same old way.
2nd verse:
If you happen for to leave a thing out all night,
you get up in the morning and it's gone from sight,
you'll know then that ragged Jack has been that way,
he's a very bad omen, people say.
He stole all his furniture, he stole his wife,
If he'd steal from his friend, he's steal yer life.
he never get's molested as he daily walks about,
But things disappear when he yells out:
Any Rags, Any Rags?
any rags any bones any bottles today,
There's a big black rag picker coming this way,
Any Rags, Any Rags?
Any rags and bones any bottles today,
it's the same old story, in the same old way!
Did you ever hear the story of Ragged, Jagged Jack?
Here he comes down the street with a pack on his back.
He comes in the morning and he comes at night,
and he gobbles up every thing in sight,
He wakes up the neighborhood for miles around,
he's regular alarm clock, always wound.
He gets beneath your window when you try to get to sleep,
and he yells in a voice so loud and deep,
Chorus:
Any Rags? Any Rags? Any Rags,
any bones any Bottles Today,
There's a big black rag picker coming this way,
Any Rags? Any Rags? Any Rags
any bones, any bottles today, it's the same old story
in the same old way.
2nd verse:
If you happen for to leave a thing out all night,
you get up in the morning and it's gone from sight,
you'll know then that ragged Jack has been that way,
he's a very bad omen, people say.
He stole all his furniture, he stole his wife,
If he'd steal from his friend, he's steal yer life.
he never get's molested as he daily walks about,
But things disappear when he yells out:
Any Rags, Any Rags?
any rags any bones any bottles today,
There's a big black rag picker coming this way,
Any Rags, Any Rags?
Any rags and bones any bottles today,
it's the same old story, in the same old way!
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