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MOTHER
How they play,
Finding treasure in the sand.
They're forever hand in hand,
Our children.

TATEH
How they laugh,
She has never laughed like this.

MOTHER
Every waking moment, bliss.

BOTH
Our children.

TATEH
See them running down the beach.
Children run so fast...

MOTHER
Toward the future...

TATEH
From the past.

MOTHER
How they dance,
Unembarrassed and alone.

BOTH
Hearing msuic of their own,
Our children.

TATEH
One so fair,
Mother
And the other, lithe and dark.

BOTH
Solemn joy and sudden spark,
Our children.
See them running down the beach.
Children run so fast
Toward the future
From the past.
There they stand,
Making footprints in the sand,
And forever hand in hand,
Our children.
Two small lives,
Silhouetted by the blue,
One like me
And one like you.
Our children.
Our children.

MOTHER
Well.

TATEH
You say that often. "Well."

MOTHER
It's because I dn't know what to say, Baron.

TATEH
I'm not a Baron, of course. I'm a poor immigrants, a Jew,
who points a camera so that his child can dress as beautifully
as a princess. I want to drive from her memory every tenement
stench and filthy immigrant street. I will buy her light and
sun and clean wind of the ocean for the rest of her life. Now
you know me. Now you understand. I am no Baron. I am Tateh.

MOTHER
Now I know even less what to say.

TATEH
Now it's my turn. Well.

MOTHER
Thank you for your confidence. I shall keep it here.

Last Update: July, 23rd 2014

Ragtime Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Prologue: Ragtime
  3. Goodbye, My Love
  4. Journey On
  5. The Crime of the Century
  6. What Kind of Woman
  7. A Shtetl Iz Amereke
  8. Success
  9. His Name Is Coalhouse Walker
  10. Getting' Ready Rag
  11. Henry Ford
  12. Nothing Like the City
  13. Your Daddy's Son
  14. The Courtship
  15. New Music
  16. Wheels of a Dream
  17. The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square
  18. Gliding
  19. The Trashing of the Car
  20. Justice
  21. President
  22. Till We Reach That Day
  23. Act 2
  24. Entr'acte Lyrics 
  25. Harry Houdini, Master Escapist
  26. Coalhouse's Soliloquy
  27. Coalhouse Demands
  28. What a Game
  29. Fire in the City
  30. Atlantic City
  31. Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc.
  32. Our Children
  33. Harlem Nightclub
  34. Sarah Brown Eyes
  35. He Wanted to Say
  36. Back to Before
  37. Look What You've Done
  38. Make Them Hear You
  39. Wheels of a Dream (reprise)
  40. The Ragtime Symphonic Suite Lyrics 

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