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.

Ragtime the Musical & Lyrics

Ragtime the Musical Lyrics

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)