File:"The Shovel Fish Rag", by Harry L. Cook (1907).oga

English: Original listing and sheet music here: https://musescore.com/user/36482158/scores/21518020?from=youtube_share

This is a great rag-and-a-half. For the price of one you get nearly enough music for two rags in Harry L. Cook's most popular rag of the three he wrote. Harry Levi Cook (1878-1953) was a Louisville musician, composer and arranger who later became a policeman! This rag was initially self-published, but the big publisher Jerome H. Remick soon picked it up and published it in New York and Detroit in 1907.

A shovelfish is a Mississippi River fish with a long snout, also known as a paddlefish. Also found in the Ohio River which flows by Louisville.

Original score source was from York University at this link: https://digital.library.yorku.ca/john-arpin-sheet-music-collection/shovel-fish-rag This is a reproduction of the original score. I have eliminated both D.S. jumps by adding extra measures where needed. Some corrections were made in the left-hand of the final section by adding naturals where missing.

Thank you to JohnJ1995 for providing the link to the original score.