Tiger Rag

Album: The Very Best of the Mills Brothers (1931)
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  • Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger!
    Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger!
    Hold that tiger! Hold that tiger ! Hold that tiger!
    Choke him, poke him, kick him and soak him!
    Where's that tiger? Where's that tiger?
    Where oh where can he be?
    Low or highbrow, they all cry now
    "Please play that Tiger Rag for me"

    Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger!
    Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger!
    Hold that tiger! Hold that tiger ! Hold that tiger!
    Choke him, poke him, kick him and soak him!
    Where's that tiger? Where's that tiger?
    Where oh where can he be?
    Low or highbrow, they all cry now
    "Please play that Tiger Rag for me" Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

Comments: 2

  • . from NoThis song was used in the 2004 film adaptation of John Knowles' book "A Separate Peace."
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 5th 1961, Louis Armstrong performed "Tiger Rag" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
    Thirty-one years earlier in 1930 it released the song on the Okeh Record label, then four years later in 1934 he released it again, this time on the Brunswick Record label...
    R.I.P. 'Satchmo' (1901 - 1971).
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