A fun 1911 ragtime song about a piano player on a ship. words by Roger Lewis music by Lucien Denni
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Accompaniment
Lyrics
Chorus
Each fish and worm begins to twist and squirm
The ship starts in to dip and does a corkscrew turn
Just see that smoke so black, sneak from that old smoke stack
Its floatin’ right to heaven and it won’t come back
Now here and there you’ll see a stool and chair
A-slippin’ round the cabin shoutin’ “I don’t care!”
And then the hammock starts a swingin’
And the bell begins a ringin’, while he’s sittin’ at that “piano”
There on the Alabama, playin’ the Oceana Roll
Performance
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