Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - The Courtship Lyrics
"The Courtship" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Marin Mazzie (Mother), Steven Sutcliffe (Younger Brother), Conrad McLaren (Grandfather), Brigit, and Company.
[MOTHER] Sarah, let me take him for a while. You haven't slept.
[There is a knock at the door]
[MOTHER] Yes?
[COALHOUSE] I'm looking for a woman of color whose name is Sarah. She is said to reside in one of these houses.
[LITTLE BOY] She's here. She's living in our attic.
[COALHOUSE] Will you tell her, please that Mr. Coalhouse Walker Jr., desires to speak with her?
[MOTHER] Certainly. Please wait here.
[LITTLE BOY] This is Sarah's baby. You want a cookie?
[MOTHER] Sarah, you have a caller. A Mr. Walker. Will you come down to the kitchen?
[SARAH] No Ma'am. Send him away, please.
[MOTHER] Well, that's the most words you've spoken since you've been here.
[COALHOUSE] Hmmm...
[MOTHER] Sarah is unable to see you. Good day.
[COALHOUSE] Thank you Ma'am. Tell her I'll come back next Sunday.
[GRANDFATHER] Such was the coming of the colored man in the car to Broadview Avenue.
[ALL] Each Sunday, he'd come driving. Curtains would part, Neighbours would peek.
[MOTHER] I'm sorry, Mr. Walker. Sarah still will not receive you.
[COALHOUSE] Will you see that she gets these flowers, Ma'am?
[MOTHER, ALL] Week after week!
And aftyer weeks of Sundays
[MOTHER] Sending him off seemed a crime...
Mr. Walker, it must be a long drive for you. Perhaps you would like a cup of tea before you go?
[COALHOUSE] This piano is badly in need of a tuning.
[MOTHER] Oh yes. We are terrible about that.
[GRANDFATHER] Do you know any coon songs?
[COALHOUSE] Coon songs are made for Minstrel shows. White men sing them in blackface. This is called Ragtime.
Ragtime the Musical The Courtship 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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