Ragtime - Fire in the City Lyrics |
Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - Fire in the City Lyrics
COALHOUSE Until my demands are met, I will continue to burn down firehouses. I will destroy the entire city if need be. Let the rules of war prevail. Coalhouse Walker, Jr., president of the provisional American government.
REPORTER Can I get one picture?
FATHER You're trampling the dahlias! Every day now, I come home to a zoo!
WELFARE OFFICIAL Will you explain to your wife that the child is illegitimate.
MOTHER He is not illegitimate.
WELFARE OFFICIAL :and must be given over one of the excellent facilities that care for these unwanted infants.
MOTHER And he is not unwanted.
FATHER That's enough. Get out of my house.
FATHER All of you. Get off my property! This is insufferable. Mr. Walker is on thing but his child's welfare is not our concern. There are limits to even the most limitless compassion. We've don enough for his child.
MOTHER No one will ever do enough for this child.
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SYNOPSIS Prologue 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 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)
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