"The Ragtime Soldier Man" is a World War I era song released in 1912 and 1917.

Irving Berlin wrote the lyrics and composed the music, basing it off his 1911 song "Alexander's Ragtime Band".

It features a U.S. soldier holding his rifle and jumping over cannon balls.

My honey dear, My honey dear, You better save your sympathy; If you should hear; If you should hear, I got too near the enemy, Kindly carry me back to old Virginia, And when you get me there Say a prayer for your ragtime soldier man.

Earlier version of the chorus: My honey, can't you hear that bugle calling me?