Ragtime Piano Joe
Peter Straker
1978
jaar
Top 40
11
piekpositie
Top 40
7
weken
Top 40
137
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Freddie was mede producer van deze single en de "touch" van Freddie is duidelijk in het nummer terug te horen.
Artiest
Titel A-kant
Ragtime Piano Joe
Lengte A-kant
3:43
Componist(en) A-kant
Fraser
Producer(s) A-kant
Roy Thomas Baker, Freddie Mercury
Titel B-kant
The Saddest Clown
Lengte B-kant
4:20
Componist(en) B-kant
Allison, Sills
Producer(s) B-kant
Roy Thomas Baker, Freddie Mercury
Platenlabel
EMI
Album
This One's On Me
Songtekst
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
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