Ragtime - His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Lyrics

Broadway production 1998
Ragtime the Musical - His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Lyrics

"His Name Is Coalhouse Walker" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Coalhouse and Company.

[PEOPLE OF HARLEM]
His name was Coalhouse Walker.

[SOLO MAN #1]
Was a native of St. Louis some years before.

[SOLO WOMAN #1]
When he heard the music od Scott Joplin

[SOLO MAN #2]
In St. Louis

[SOLO WOMAN #2]
Bought himself some piano lessons
Working as a stevedore.

[SOLO MAN #3]
Here was a music
That truly inspired.

[LADIES]
Dancers required him.

[MEN]
Club owners hired him.

[ALL]
the strivers of Harlem
Respected and admired him

[SOLO MAN #4]
For turning Harlem into art

[COALHOUSE]
But Coalhouse had a broken heart.
The Good Lord looked down, saw me lonely and loveless,
and thought to Himself: "Enough is enough. I'm putting
Sarah in Coalhouse's life."
And he did.

This wasn't a woman. This was an angel, a gift of God.
Coalhouse loved this woman, but not wisely and not
too well. She left me without a word or trace. There was
no pity for me.

[SARAH'S FRIEND]
None whatsoever, Coalhouse.

[COALHOUSE]
Now she is haunting me
Just like a melody-
the only song I seem to know.
Sarah, my life has changed.
Sarah, I miss you so.
Sarah, I did you wrong.
sarah, where did you go?

And then this morning, the miracle happened. I found
out where she is and I'm going to do my damnedest to
see she takes me back. Ladies and gentlemen, the
Gettin' Ready Rag!

Ragtime the Musical His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Lyrics

Ragtime the Musical Lyrics

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)