Suffs - I Was Here Lyrics |
2024 Broadway Suffs the Musical - I Was Here Lyrics
The song is written by Shaina Taub.
ENSEMBLE: I've never felt so alive before Out here together I realize I'm not alone anymore I feel a part of something bigger Than me (I feel a part of) Something bigger exploding open I feel my world completely change I finally feel it change
IDA: (spoken) Hello, Ida Wells speaking
MARY: (spoken) It's Mary, Here with Phyllis in Nashville
IDA: (spoken) And? Mary, what happened?
MARY: (spoken) It passed
IDA: (spoken) They did it
MARY: (spoken) We did it
IDA: (spoken) Go on now Tell me how much easier This all would have been Without my troublemakin'
MARY: (spoken) Not this time
IDA: (spoken) I bet all the white ladies Were cryin' rivers, huh?
PHYLLIS: (spoken) Oh, they sure were But me and Mama, We danced our way right Out the State House Didn't we?
IDA: (spoken) Your mama dancin' Now I would like to see that
MARY: (spoken) I like to dance, okay?
IDA: (spoken) They'll still stop our women from voting Same as they do to our men
MARY: (spoken) I know But I'm so tired of fightin'
PHYLLIS: As so, lifting as we climb Onward and upward we go
PHYLLIS: (spoken) Say it, Mama
MARY: And so
IDA: Lifting as we climb
IDA, MARY & PHYLLIS: Onward and upward we go And so, lifting as we climb Onward and upward we go
MARY: I want my mother to know I was here
IDA: I want my sisters to know I was here
PHYLLIS: I want my great-granddaughter To know I was here
MARY: I was here
IDA & PHYLLIS, MARY: I want your mother to know I was here (I was here) I want your children to know I was here
IDA, MARY & PHYLLIS: I want your great-granddaughter to know I need her to know I was here
Review: Suffs the Musical Lyrics
Suffs the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS Let Mother Vote Finish the Fight Find A Way Wait My Turn Terrell’s Theme The March (We Demand Equality) Great American Bitch Ladies Worth It If We Were Married The Convention Part 1 This Girl The Convention Part 2 Alva Belmont Show Them Who You Are The Campaign How Long? The Young Are At The Gates Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone Hold It Together Wait My Turn (reprise) The Report Show Them Who You Are (reprise) Insane Fire & Tea Let Mother Vote (reprise) She and I A Letter From Harry’s Mother I Was Here If We Were Married (reprise) Lucy’s Song Finish the Fight (reprise) Keep Marching
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