Lullaby In Ragtime
Composer(s): Sylvia Fine
First performance/First release by: Danny Kaye & Louis Armstrong - 1959
Covered by multiple other artists



Won't you play the music so the cradle can rock
to a lullaby in ragtime
Sleepy hands are creeping to the end of the clock
play a lullaby in ragtime
You can tell the sandman is on his way
by the way
that they play
As still, as the trill, of a thrush, in a twilight high

So you can hear the
Rhythm of the ripples on the side of the boat

as you sail away to dreamland
High above the moon you hear a silvery note
as the sandman takes your hand
So rock-a-by my baby
don't you cry my baby
sleepy-time is nigh
Won't you rock me to a ragtime lullaby
So rock-a-by my baby

don't you cry my baby
sleepy-time is nigh
Won't you rock me to a ragtime lullaby