Ragtime - The Courtship Lyrics

Broadway production 1998
Ragtime the Musical - The Courtship Lyrics

"The Courtship" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Marin Mazzie (Mother), Steven Sutcliffe (Younger Brother), Conrad McLaren (Grandfather), Brigit, and Company.

[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.

Ragtime the Musical The Courtship 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)