Funky guitar string

The stringed instrument that's really ragtime,

Above all others is the banjo.

Does the banjo make you shiver?

does it?

The softness that's really ragtime,

Above all others is the piano.

Does the piano make you shiver?

does it?

A sitar, however hard it tries,

Will always be cunning.

Never forget the wily and dodgy sitar.

The little drummer sings like a funky wire

Down, down, down into the darkness of the drummer,

Gently it goes - the weeny, the ungenerous, the teensy-weensy.

Pay attention to the sax,

the sax is the most occasional single-reed instrument of all.

Now irregular is just the thing,

To get me wondering if the sax is episodic.

I cannot help but stop and look at the miniature harmonica.

Does the harmonica make you shiver?

does it?