Ragtime - His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Lyrics |
Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Lyrics
"His Name Is Coalhouse Walker" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Coalhouse and Company.
[PEOPLE OF HARLEM] His name was Coalhouse Walker.
[SOLO MAN #1] Was a native of St. Louis some years before.
[SOLO WOMAN #1] When he heard the music od Scott Joplin
[SOLO MAN #2] In St. Louis
[SOLO WOMAN #2] Bought himself some piano lessons Working as a stevedore.
[SOLO MAN #3] Here was a music That truly inspired.
[LADIES] Dancers required him.
[MEN] Club owners hired him.
[ALL] the strivers of Harlem Respected and admired him
[SOLO MAN #4] For turning Harlem into art
[COALHOUSE] But Coalhouse had a broken heart. The Good Lord looked down, saw me lonely and loveless, and thought to Himself: "Enough is enough. I'm putting Sarah in Coalhouse's life." And he did.
This wasn't a woman. This was an angel, a gift of God. Coalhouse loved this woman, but not wisely and not too well. She left me without a word or trace. There was no pity for me.
[SARAH'S FRIEND] None whatsoever, Coalhouse.
[COALHOUSE] Now she is haunting me Just like a melody- the only song I seem to know. Sarah, my life has changed. Sarah, I miss you so. Sarah, I did you wrong. sarah, where did you go?
And then this morning, the miracle happened. I found out where she is and I'm going to do my damnedest to see she takes me back. Ladies and gentlemen, the Gettin' Ready Rag!
Ragtime the Musical His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Lyrics
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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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