There's Pharaohs and there's farmers, there's bosses and there's slaves*

There's every kind of sorrow in the fields these days

From the Delta of the Nile to the Country of the Brave

And baby's gone mad again

But Moses climbed the mountain, Moses got the stones

And Moses told the people: "We're going on home"

And the Red Sea parted and the Dead Sea moaned

With the Ragtime Ragtime Blues

Lead me to the river, lay me by the shore

Let the coyotes find me, let the raindrops pour

Let the clouds drop roses til I''m drowned in thorns

Cause baby's gone mad again

Rivers flow wild, rivers flow free

And rivers flow mighty or it just might be

That rivers run crazy til the moon comes clean

With the Ragtime Ragtime Blues

Genghis Khan was conned but Napoleon was told

Never go and conquer what you cannot hold

If land was a woman I'd be foolish for the gold

And baby's gone mad again

Now I'm not saying that I'm some king

And I'm not saying that you're no queen

I'm just saying, I'm just saying I've got the Ragtime Ragtime Blues

The deeper is the winter, the richer is the spring

What the frost might taketh, the sunshine brings

A little color on the hill, a little dust upon the wings

Cause baby's coming back again

None can decipher, none too soon

The circles of the sun and the circles of the moon

Run circles round my head in a circulatory tune

Called the Ragtime Ragtime Blues