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MOTHER:
Sarah, let me take him for a while. You haven't slept.

There is a knock at the door:

MOTHER:
Yes?

COALHOUSE:
I'm looking for a woman of color whose name is Sarah.
She is said to reside in one of these houses.

LITTLE BOY:
She's here. She's living in our attic.

COALHOUSE:
Will you tell her, please that Mr. Coalhouse Walker Jr.,
desires to speak with her?

MOTHER:
Certainly. Please wait here.

LITTLE BOY:
This is Sarah's baby. You want a cookie?

MOTHER:
Sarah, you have a caller. A Mr. Walker. Will you come
down to the kitchen?

SARAH:
No Ma'am. Send him away, please.

MOTHER:
Well, that's the most words you've spoken since you've
been here.

COALHOUSE:
Hmmm...

MOTHER:
Sarah is unable to see you. Good day.

COALHOUSE:
Thank you Ma'am. Tell her I'll come back next Sunday.

GRANDFATHER:
Such was the coming of the colored man in the car
to Broadview Avenue.

ALL:
Each Sunday, he'd come driving.
Curtains would part,
Neighbours would peek.

MOTHER:
I'm sorry, Mr. Walker. Sarah still will not receive you.

COALHOUSE:
Will you see that she gets these flowers, Ma'am?

MOTHER, ALL:
Week after week!

And aftyer weeks of Sundays

MOTHER:
Sending him off seemed a crime...

Mr. Walker, it must be a long drive for you. Perhaps
you would like a cup of tea before you go?

COALHOUSE:
This piano is badly in need of a tuning.

MOTHER:
Oh yes. We are terrible about that.

GRANDFATHER:
Do you know any coon songs?

COALHOUSE:
Coon songs are made for Minstrel shows. White men
sing them in blackface. This is called Ragtime.

Last Update: December, 05th 2013

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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