Brian Stokes Mitchell feat. Duane Martin Foster, Ralph Deaton, Darlene Bel Grayson, Keith LaMelle, Ragtime Ensemble, Monica Patton, Vanessa Townsell-Crisp & Leon Williams - His Name Was Coalhouse Walker Lyrics

Lyrics His Name Was Coalhouse Walker - Brian Stokes Mitchell , Ragtime Ensemble



His name was Coalhouse Walker.
Was a native of St. Louis some years before.
When he heard the music od Scott Joplin
In St. Louis
Bought himself some piano lessons
Working as a stevedore.
Here was a music
That truly inspired.
Dancers required him.
Club owners hired him.
The strivers of Harlem
Respected and admired him
For turning Harlem into art
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.
None whatsoever, 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!



Writer(s): Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Charles Flaherty


Brian Stokes Mitchell feat. Duane Martin Foster, Ralph Deaton, Darlene Bel Grayson, Keith LaMelle, Ragtime Ensemble, Monica Patton, Vanessa Townsell-Crisp & Leon Williams - Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)l

1 Prologue: Ragtime
2 Goodbye, My Love
3 Journey On
4 The Crime of the Century
5 What Kind of Woman
6 A Shtetl Iz Amereke
7 Success
8 His Name Was Coalhouse Walker
9 Gettin' Ready Rag
10 Henry Ford
11 Nothing Like the City
12 Your Daddy's Son
13 The Courtship
14 New Music
15 Wheels of a Dream
16 The Night that Goldman Spoke at Union Square
17 Gliding
18 The Trashing of the Car
19 Justice
20 President
21 Till We Reach That Day
22 Entr'acte
23 Harry Houdini, Master Escapist
24 Coalhouse's Soliloquy
25 Coalhouse Demands
26 What a Game
27 Fire in the City
28 Atlantic City
29 Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc.
30 Our Children
31 Harlem Nightclub
32 Sarah Brown Eyes
33 He Wanted to Say
34 Back to Before
35 Look What You've Done
36 Make Them Hear You
37 Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)



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