Composer Lewis F. Muir was born in 1884. His early career was as a popular ragtime pianist in St. Louis Honky Tonk saloons. Moving to New York City in 1910, he began collaborating with lyricists on Tin Pan Alley. His first published song was “Play That Barbershop Chord.”

Collaborating with William Tracey, Edgar Leslie, Maurie Abrams and mostly L. Wolfe Gilbert, Muir produced the standards “When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary”, “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee”, “Take Me To That Swanee Shore”, “Here Comes My Daddy Now”, “Mississippi River Steamboat”, “Ragtime Cowboy Joe”, “Hitchy-Koo”, “Mammy Jinny’s Jubilee” and “Hicky-Hoy.”

Muir died of tuberculosis in 1915, at the age of 32.

Muir's songs, with their catchy melodies and ragtime or Dixieland rhythms, are particularly well-suited for brass quintet adaptations. These songs are crowd pleasers at outdoor or informal indoor concerts.

Toot Suite Brass Publishing is pleased to make the following brass quintet arrangements of works by Lewis F. Muir available at Sheet Music Plus.

• At the Yiddish Cabaret

• Buy a Bale of Cotton for Me

• Camp Meeting Band

• He Wants Someone to Call Him Papa

• Here Comes My Daddy Now

• Little Rag Baby Doll

• Mammy Jinny's Jubilee

• Mootchin' Along (at the Cotton Ball)

• Oh You Bear Cat Rag

• Play That Barber Shop Chord

• Ragging the Baby to Sleep

• Take Me to that Swanee Shore

• The Trail to Sunset Valley

• Waiting For The Robert E. Lee

• When My Marie Sings the Chilly Billy Bee