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1986 Broadway
Rags the Musical - Greenhorns Lyrics
IMMIGRANT:
I remember summer evenings
Sitting, you and I
While the cranes were calling
In the eastern sky
Sometimes we don't love things
'Till we tell them goodbye
Oh my homeland
My homeland
Goodbye
OFFICER:
Anyone who's ever had tuberculosis
Over here
In this line
Anyone who has a white card
MAN:
White card?
OFFICER:
In the barge
WOMAN:
A barge?
OTHER WOMAN:
That means we're in! We made it!
OTHER MAN:
Now we're Americans!
OFFICER:
Get in the barge!
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
Other Songs: Rags the Musical Songs Lyrics 1986
Rags Greenhorns lyrics
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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