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Wang Wang Blues
When My Baby Smiles At Me
When You And I Were Young Maggie
While Strolling Through The Park One Day
Winchester Cathedral

Wang Wang Blues


Leo Wood/Gus Mueller/"Buster Johnson/Henry Busse

	Albums		1968		Twelve Great Hits In Ragtime
			1985		22 Great Hits In Ragtime, V.1

When My Baby Smiles At Me

Words by Andrew B. Sterling and Ted Lewis
Music by Bill Munro (1920)

Ted Lewis and his Band was one of the best selling Jazz bands of the 1920s. Lewis got his start with Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band in 1917, but his clarinet antics soon made him the star of the group and he went solo in 1919, taking most of the musicians from Fuller's band with him. Over the years many up and coming Jazz greats like Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey passed through the band early in their careers.

Albums	1985	Ragtime Favorites
	1968	Ragtime Melodies
	1968	Tiger Rag
	1968	Twelve Great Hits In Ragtime
	1988	22 Great Hits In Ragtime, V.2

When You And I Were Young Maggie

Words by George W. Johnson
Music by James Austin Butterfield (1866)

An historic American folksong written in 1866 by George W. Johnson writing about his wife, an ex-student of his, who died a few months after their marriage.

George was a young school teacher when he met Maggie Clark, who was then his pupil. Maggie and George fell in love and were later engaged. Maggie was not well, however, having contracted tuberculosis. During one of his fiancee's more serious periods of illness, George walked to a nearby hill, overlooking a mill, and composed the verse that provided the lyrics to his song.

On October 21, 1864, George and Maggie were married in Glanbrook, Ontario. It is also around this time that George's poetry book, Maple Leaves, was published. It included his poem "When You And I Were Young, Maggie."

Unfortunately, Maggie's health deteriorated and she died on May 12, 1865, as a result of typhus fever. She was buried in White Church Cemetery.

The following year, George worked with his friend J.C. Butterfield and set "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" to music. It was first sung by Maggie's sister Elizabeth, and eventually became a popular song all over the world.

I wandered today to the hills, Maggie,
To watch the scene below
The creek and the creaking old mill, Maggie,
As we used to long long ago
The green grove is gone from the hills, Maggie,
Where first the daisies sprung
The creaking old mill is still, Maggie,
Since you and I were young.

Oh they say that I'm feeble with age, Maggie,
My steps are much slower than then
My face is a well written page, Maggie,
And time all alone was the pen
They say we have outlived our time, Maggie,
As dated as songs that we've sung
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie,
When you and I were young.

Albums

1968

22 Great Hits In Ragtime, V.1