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1986 Broadway
Rags the Musical - Rags Lyrics
AVRAM:
Open your eyes, Bella
Just take a breath
BELLA:
Please don't tell me that again
Don't tell me how it all belongs to me
"Just take a breath, Bella"
Not outdoors, Papa
Everytime I take a breath I gag
"Open your eyes, Bella"
No, open yours, Papa!
Mine are open wide
And let me tell you what I see
Rags
Rags
This land of "freedom"
We had to run to
Where now we're free
Just like everyone to wear rags
It's all day seeing them
All day smelling them
All day list'ning to peddlers selling them
Rags
Rags
I live in rags
And so I'm right in style
All the while
Sewing, sewing, see us sewing
Hags
We turn to hags
It happens bit by bit
Picture it, Papa
There I sit
Sewing buttons on rags
Oh Papa, was it so necessary
To cram us onto that stinkin' ferry
And drag us here
To become American rags?
AVRAM:
Bella, remember what we left
BELLA:
Papa, I know you had to leave
AVRAM:
I wanted to be free
BELLA:
I know how much you wanted to be free
AVRAM:
For you and -
BELLA:
Just don't say again
AVRAM:
For Herschel
BELLA:
How you did it all
AVRAM:
It wasn't
AVRAM AND BELLA:
For me
BELLA:
When all I got is rags
And it's rags to wear
And it's rags to buy
And it's rags to wash and hang out to dry
Like old flags
It's rags on heads
And it's rags on feet
It's the latest look on Delancey Street
It's all rags
Dreams
You gave me dreams
Of such a golden place
Silk and lace
AVRAM:
Soon all your dreams, they will come true, soon
BELLA:
Milk and honey
Oh, that's funny
Lies
AVRAM:
Soon you're gonna see
BELLA:
That's all they seem
And now the dreams have flown
AVRAM:
Just wait and see
Time
Things take time
BELLA:
Use your eyes, Papa
AVRAM:
Give it time
BELLA:
No more lies
Papa, leave me alone!
Here's where the beauty is
Where the party is
See that handsome gent
Look how smart he is
Dancing by in his fancy clothes
And he sneers at me down his perfect nose
And his hair is clean and his skin is clear
And he wonders "what is she doing here?"
And he tunrs his back and the rest do too
And I want to scream "I'm the same as you!"
But it isn't true, I'm just
One more Jew
In her rags
Other Songs: Rags the Musical Songs Lyrics 1986
Rags lyrics from Rags the musical
Rags the Musical Songs Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
If We Never Meet Again
Greenhorns
Brand New World
Children of the Wind
Penny a Tune
Easy for You
Hard To Be a Prince
Blame It on the Summer Night
For My Mary
Rags
The Sound of Love
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