Rags - Greenhorns Lyrics

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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