Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - Justice Lyrics
"Justice" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Coalhouse and Company.
COALHOUSE We'll see justice, Sarah And plenty of men Who will stand up and give us our due!
TOWN HALL BUREAUCRAT Well, you can sign another complaint, Mr. Walker, but volunteer firemen are not municipal employees, and therefore do not come under the jurisdiction of the city. I'm sorry.
SECOND BUREAUCRAT I'm still tracing your first complaint, Mr. Walker. Are you sure you filed it with this office. Let me look again.
COALHOUSE Justice, Sarah. This is America.
MOTHER I am ashamed that our community is represented in his mind by that bunch of toughs.
FATHER Let me talk to my lawyer.
YOUNGER BROTHER That's all it will be: talk, talk, talk!
COALHOUSE The law's the law. The law's been broken Why should I turn the other cheek? What about justice!
PEOPLE OF HARLEM The bureaucrats and bunglers The attorneys who smiled
WHITE ATTORNEY My advice is recover your car and forget the whole matter.
PEOPLE OF HARLEM The clerks and the officials And the forms that were filed
CLERK This is to get a place on the court calendar. This for change of venue...
PEOPLE OF HARLEM So many roads to justice Around the bend
BLACK LAWYER I want justice for our people so bad I can taste it. But I won't waste my time on a mere case of vandalism when I have real injustices to take to the courts.
PEOPLE OF HARLEM And every road a new dead end!
COALHOUSE I will not move >From where I'm standing Till what's mine is restored to me I'm not some fool I'm not their nigger! I will have what's fairly owed me! And till then, I will not marry...
MOTHER We understand Mr. Walker's outrage. We share it. All decent people do.
SARAH He said, "Wheels are turning for us, girl."
MOTHER But I'm sure there's some way to settle this affair without calling off the wedding.
SARAH He said, "Times are starting to roll."
MOTHER To be so close to the happiness you both deserve and have it come to this!
SARAH Well, I know he'll get where he wants to 'Cause he's got that fire in his soul Said, "There's justice, Sarah, And plenty of men who will stand up and give us our due." Well, you'll have your due, Coalhouse, Yes, you'll have your due.
Ragtime the Musical Justice 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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