Ragtime - Henry Ford Lyrics

Broadway production 1998
Ragtime the Musical - Henry Ford Lyrics

"Henry Ford" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Larry Daggett (Henry Ford) and Company.

[FORD]
See my people?
Well, here's my theory
Of what this country
Is moving toward.
Every worker
A cog in motion.
Well, that's the notion of
Henry Ford!

One man tightens
And one man ratchets
And one man reaches
To pull one cord.
Car keeps moving
In one direction.

[ENSEMBLE]
A genuflection to
Henry Ford!
Hallelujah!
Praise the maker
Of the Model T!

[FORD]
Speed up the belt.
Speed up the belt, Sam.

[ENSEMBLE]
Hallelujah!

[COALHOUSE]
Hell, I'll take her!

[ENSEMBLE]
Sure amazin'
How far some fellas can see!

[FORD]
Speed up the belt.
Speed up the belt, Sam.
Speed up the belt.
Speed up the belt, Sam!

[ENSEMBLE & FORD]
Speed up the, speed up the,
Speed up the speed up the belt!

[ENSEMBLE]
Mass production
Will sweep the nation.
A simple notion,
The world's reward.

[FORD]
Even people who ain't too clever
Can learn to tighten a nut forever,
Attach one pedal
Or pull one lever

[ENSEMBLE]
For Henry Ford!
Henry Ford!
Henry Ford!
Henry Ford!

[FORD]
Grab yor goggles

[ENSEMBLE & FORD]
And climb aboard!

[COALHOUSE]
I'm ready, Lord!

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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)