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His Name Was Coalhouse Walker Lyrics

Soundtrack Album: Ragtime

His Name Was Coalhouse Walker Text

[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

Soundtrack Lyrics for Musical, 1998

Track Listing

›Prologue: Ragtime

›Goodbye My Love

›Journey on

›The Crime of the Century

›What Kind of Woman

›A Shtetl iz Amerike

›Success

›His Name Was Coalhouse Walker

›The Gettin' Ready Rag

›Henry Ford

›Nothing Like the City

›The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square

›Epilogue / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)

›Look What You've Done/ Think of Your Son

›Buffalo Nickel Photoplay Inc.

›Atlantic City

›What a Game

›Coalhouse Demands

›Coalhouse's Soliloquy

›'Till We Reach That Day

›President

›Justice

›Booker T. Washington's Speech/ The Trashing of the Car

›Gliding

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