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Henry Ford Lyrics
FORD:
See my people?
Well, here's my theory
Of what this country
Is moving toward.
Every worker
A cog in motion.
Well, that's the notion of
Henry Ford!
One man tightens
And one man ratchets
And one man reaches
To pull one cord.
Car keeps moving
In one direction.
ENSEMBLE:
A genuflection to
Henry Ford!
Hallelujah!
Praise the maker
Of the Model T!
FORD:
Speed up the belt.
Speed up the belt, Sam.
ENSEMBLE:
Hallelujah!
COALHOUSE:
Hell, I'll take her!
ENSEMBLE:
Sure amazin'
How far some fellas can see!
FORD:
Speed up the belt.
Speed up the belt, Sam.
Speed up the belt.
Speed up the belt, Sam!
ENSEMBLE & FORD:
Speed up the, speed up the, speed up the speed up the belt!
ENSEMBLE:
Mass production
Will sweep the nation.
A simple notion,
The world's reward.
FORD:
Even people who ain't too clever
Can learn to tighten a nut forever,
Attach one pedal
Or pull one lever
ENSEMBLE:
For Henry Ford!
Henry Ford!
Henry Ford!
Henry Ford!
FORD:
Grab yor goggles
ENSEMBLE & FORD:
And climb aboard!
COALHOUSE:
I'm ready, Lord!
Last Update: July, 01st 2014
Ragtime Lyrics
- Act 1
- Prologue: Ragtime
- Goodbye, My Love
- Journey On
- The Crime of the Century
- What Kind of Woman
- A Shtetl Iz Amereke
- Success
- His Name Is Coalhouse Walker
- Getting' Ready Rag
- Henry Ford
- Nothing Like the City
- Your Daddy's Son
- The Courtship
- New Music
- Wheels of a Dream
- The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square
- Gliding
- The Trashing of the Car
- Justice
- President
- Till We Reach That Day
- Act 2
- Entr'acte Lyrics
- Harry Houdini, Master Escapist
- Coalhouse's Soliloquy
- Coalhouse Demands
- What a Game
- Fire in the City
- Atlantic City
- Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc.
- Our Children
- Harlem Nightclub
- Sarah Brown Eyes
- He Wanted to Say
- Back to Before
- Look What You've Done
- Make Them Hear You
- Wheels of a Dream (reprise)
- The Ragtime Symphonic Suite Lyrics