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Mother:
Get kathleen!
Get kathleen, i tell you! Call the doctor!

Kathleen:
Is it alive? Oh, please, god, let it be.

Mother:
It's alive. It's a negro child. A newborn baby boy.

What kind of woman
Would do such a thing?

Why in god's name
Is my husband not here?

I'm such a fool!

Why did i say
He was free to go?
What am i to do?
Where are your instructions,
My dear?
You left me lists.
Everything in lists!
Well, your little lists
Aren't very helpful,
I fear!
Each day, the maids
Trudge up the hill.
The hired help arrives.
I never stopped to think
They might
Have lives beyond out lives...

Policeman:
We found her in the cellar of a home on the next
Block. She's a washwoman there. Her name is sarah.

Mother:
Where will you take her?

Policeman:
To the charity ward. Eventually she will have to
Stand trial.

Younger brother:
What charges?

Policeman:
Well, attempted murder, i should think.

Mother:
What's going to happen to the baby?

Doctor:
They have places for unfortunates like this.

Mother:
I will take responsibility for mother and child.
Please take miss sarah inside.

What kind of woman
Would do what i've done-
Open the door
To such chaos and pain!
You would have
Gently closed the door,
And gently turned the key,
And gently told me not to look,
For fear of what i'd see.

What kind of woman
Would that have made me?

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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