The Skeleton Rag with lyrics (Percy Wenrich, 1911)
This is about as good as I can play it. Not perfect but not terrible either. This song is by Percy Wenrich with words by Edward Madden. It was published in 1911.
I learned it from the instrumental version which is in F, whereas the song version is in E-flat. Nevertheless, I added the lyrics to this video. I realized as I did so that I actually played a couple extra measures after the line "See them wiggle and wag." Oops. I didn't study the sheet music too closely -- just enough until I knew the chords and melody. As I didn't know the lyrics when recording this, I didn't catch that I was playing a part that shouldn't be there. I guess one can just have the ghosts and goblins dancing a bit there! "See them wiggle and wag" are the preceding words, after all!
You can download the song version sheet music here:
ucblibraries.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/sheetmusic.pl?RagSkel&Rag&main
I cannot find an online source for the instrumental version that I have in one of my ragtime books ("All-American Ragtime, vol. 4").