He's A Rag Picker Paroles

I don't mean the kind of rags they put in bags
He doesn't own a junk shop
Just the same

[Refrain:]
He's a rag picker, a rag picker
All the livelong day
He bangs upon the piano keys
In search of raggy melodies
All day he's at the ivories
And while he dozes, he composes
Mister Moses makes an ordinary ditty sound so pretty
Like nobody can
Most any time of the day
You'll find him picking away
He's a rag picker, a rag picker
A ragtime picking man

[2nd verse:]
Moses' father told me that upon the morn Chewing on the highly polished piano keys
That very day his father
Loudly cried