Salty Dog Rag-Red Foley

[00:11.951] Away down yonder in the state of Arkansas [00:14.518] where my great-grandpa met my great-grandma [00:17.410] they drink apple cider and they get on a jag [00:19.967] and they dance all night to the Salty Dog Rag [00:22.928] They play an old fiddle like you never heard before [00:25.342] They play the only tune that they ever did know [00:28.005] It's a ragtime ditty and the rhythm don't drag [00:30.721] now here's the way you dance to the Salty Dog Rag [00:33.640] One foot front, drag it back, [00:36.337] then you start to ball the jack. [00:39.035] You shake and you break and then you sag, [00:41.393] if your partner zigs you're supposed to zag. [00:44.270] Your heart is light, you tap your feet [00:46.795] in rhythm with that ragtime beat. [00:49.474] Just pack up your troubles in your old kit bag [00:52.418] and dance all night to the Salty Dog Rag. [01:16.401] Away down South 'neath the old Southern moon [01:19.152] the possum's up a tree and the hounds treed a coon [01:21.754] They'll hitch up the buggy to a broken down nag [01:24.558] and go out dancing to the Salty Dog Rag [01:27.155] They tune up the fiddle and they rosin up the bow [01:29.904] They strike a C chord on the old banjo [01:32.457] and holler hang on 'cause we ain't gonna drag [01:35.033] 'cause here's the way you dance to the Salty Dog Rag [01:38.017] One foot front, drag it back, [01:40.736] then you start to ball the jack. [01:43.412] You shake and you break and then you sag, [01:45.718] if your partner zigs you're supposed to zag. [01:48.563] Your heart is light, you tap your feet [01:51.023] in rhythm with that ragtime beat. [01:54.129] pack up your troubles in your old kit bag [01:56.784] and dance all night to the Salty Dog Rag. [02:20.990] One foot front, drag it back, [02:23.561] then you start to ball the jack. [02:25.986] You shake and you break and then you sag, [02:28.541] if your partner zigs you're supposed to zag. [02:31.373] Your heart is light, you tap your feet [02:34.023] in rhythm with that ragtime beat. [02:36.935] pack up your troubles in your old kit bag [02:39.461] and dance all night to the Salty Dog Rag.