Chords for Peter Straker - Ragtime Piano Joe • TopPop

[Eb] The man who made his name [G] in the moving picture show
_ _ [Bbm] Was the man whose face we saw but [C] whose voice we didn't [Dm] know
[C] [Fm] The only things we heard him say were on cards we [Bb] read too slow
_ [Fm] _ [F] The man who made them [Bb] speak was [Em] Ragtime Piano [Eb] Joe
_ [Bb] It _ _ was [Eb] the only life that he knew [G] _
Ragtime Piano [Cm] Joe
[C] [F] It was the only thing he could [Bb] do Ragtime Piano Joe
And [Eb] when the hero walked in the door [F] A shot of chaplin's mouth could blow _
Who made [Bb] the show?
[Eb] Ragtime Piano Joe
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ Al Jolson, Moon and [G] Moon and Dirk and Dixie's came to town
_ [Bbm] Hoagie Carmichael played a tune [C] It really brought Joe [Dm] down
[C] _ [Fm] And Busby Buckley clinched the deal And all the flicks [Bb] had _ [Fm] sound
[F] Joe took his life [Bb] one night They say that he was [Eb] drowned
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It was [Eb] the only life that he [G] knew Ragtime [Cm] Piano Joe
[F] It was the only thing he could do [Bb] Ragtime Piano Joe
[Eb] And when the hero walked in the door [F] A shot of chaplin's mouth could blow _
_ Who was it who [Bb] made the show?
Ragtime [Eb] Piano Joe _ _ _ _ _ _
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And when the hero walked in the [Eb] door A shot of [Db] chaplin's mouth could [C] blow
_ Who [F] was it?
Who [Eb] was it?
Ragtime Piano Joe
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ If late at night into [G] the movie house you go
_ [Bbm] Sit at the back, stay out of sight [C] You can still hear Ragtime Joe
[Fm] When the crowds have gone The old time songs, the ones we [Bb] used to know
[Fm] Can still [Am] be heard but [Bb] very faint It's the ghost [Eb] of poor old Joe
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It [Eb] was the only life that he [G] knew Ragtime Piano [Cm] Joe
[F] It was the only thing he could [Bb] do Ragtime Piano Joe
[Eb] And when the hero walked in the door A [F] shot of chaplin's mouth could blow
Who was it [A] who made the [Bb] show?
Ragtime Piano [Gm] Joe
_ [Db] _ [Bb] _ [Ab] It [Eb] was the only life that he knew [G] Ragtime [C] Piano _ [F] Joe
It was the only thing he could do [Bb] Ragtime Piano Joe
[Eb] And when the hero walked in the door [F] A shot of chaplin's mouth could blow
Ragtime _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
Piano [Eb] Joe _ _ _ _ _ _
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