From time to time Scott Joplin collaborated with friends and students, helping them to craft ragtime works. With Arthur Marshall he co-wrote the Swipesy Cake Walk in 1900, and he co-wrote this "Sunflower Slow Drag" with Scott Hayden around the same time though it wasn't published until 1901. The "Slow Drag" was a type of popular dance of the period, which was danced to ragtime music.
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