歌曲名 Ragtime Piano Joe

歌手名 Peter Straker

The man who made his name

in the moving picture show

Was the man whose face we saw

but whose voice we didn't know

The only things we heard him

say were on cards we read too slow

The man who made them speak was

Ragtime Piano Joe

It was the only life that he knew

Ragtime Piano Joe

It was the only thing he could do

Ragtime Piano Joe

And when the hero walked in the door

Or Charlie Chaplin fell through the floor

Who was it made the show

Ragtime Piano Joe

Al Jolson mooned and crooned

when talking pictures came to town

Hoagy Carmichael played a tune

it really brought Joe down

Then Busby Berkley clinched the deal

and all the flicks had sound

Joe took his life one night

they say that he was drowned

It was the only life that he knew

Ragtime Piano Joe

It was the only thing he could do

Ragtime Piano Joe

And when the hero walked in the door

Or Charlie Chaplin fell through the floor

Who was it made the show

Ragtime Piano Joe

Lalala

And when the hero walked in the door

Or Charlie Chaplin fell through the floor

Who was it who was it

Ragtime Piano Joe

If late at night into the movie house you go

Sit at the back stay out of sight

you can still hear Ragtime Joe

When the crowds have gone the old time songs

the ones we used to know

Can still be heard but very faint

it's the ghost of poor old Joe

It was the only life that he knew

Ragtime Piano Joe

It was the only thing he could do

Ragtime Piano Joe

And when the hero walked in the door

Or Charlie Chaplin fell through the floor

Who was it made the show

Ragtime Piano Joe

It was the only life that he knew

Ragtime Piano Joe

It was the only thing he could do

Ragtime Piano Joe

And when the hero walked in the door

Or Charlie Chaplin fell through the floor

Who was it who was it

Ragtime Piano Joe