“Ragtime“ | Downton Abbey Series 1 Fanvideo

Footage from Series 1 of the ITV show Downton Abbey. Music from the 1996 Toronto and 1998 Broadway cast recordings of Ahrens & Flaherty’s Ragtime. It’s jokes! LYRICS The skies were blue and hazy Rarely a storm, barely a chill La (la la la la) The afternoons were lazy Everyone warm, everything still La (la la la la) And there was distant music Simple and somehow sublime Giving the nation a new syncopation The people called it ragtime [Interlude] And there was distant music Skipping a beat, singing