2020 London Rags the Musical - Greenhorns Lyrics
IMMIGRANTS: Long live Columbus! Long live Columbus! Long live Columbus!
CHILDREN: Christo-Christopher Columbus
OFFICERS: Another load of greenhorns fresh off the boat Another wave of refugees To fill the mills and factories A little grist For the capital system It's a bunch of greaseballs greasin' the wheels A little oil for the machine Greenhorns, let 'em come If we can get 'em while they're green Greenhorns Greenhorns Greenhorns Who wants to pay for their manual labor? With a hunk of hunkies huntin' for jobs It takes a year to get 'em clean Greenhorns, ship 'em in They keep our pockets full of green
REBECCA: I'm supposed to meet my husband, Nathan Hershkovitz. Have you seen him?
OFFICER: Anyone here a tailor?
REBECCA: He's about this tall with a mustache
MAN: I'm a tailor
OFFICER: You want a job in Tennessee, over here
REBECCA: Nathan Hershkovitz. Have you seen him? Have you seen him?
OFFICERS: Another load of greenhorns fresh off the boat Another load of human dirt To sew the cuff on every shirt And help the rise Of free enterprise They call them wretched refues, taking a whiff And you'll discover what they mean Greenhorns, heaps and lops But long as greenhorns work the shops Pick the crops Eat the slops
IMMIGRANTS: Long live Columbus
OFFICER: Grease the cops
IMMIGRANTS: Long live Columbus
OFFICERS: The load of greenhorns never stops Let's keep America
EVERYONE: Long live America We'll keep America Green
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