《Prologue: Ragtime》歌词

歌曲： Prologue: Ragtime

所属专辑：Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

歌手： Ragtime Ensemble

时长： 09:25

播放 下载lrc歌词 下载纯文本歌词

Prologue: Ragtime - David Loud[00:00:00]

In 1902 father built a house[00:00:34]

At the crest of the brodview[00:00:36]

Avenue hill in new rochelle [00:00:38]

New york and it seemed for[00:00:40]

Some years thereafter that all the family's days would be[00:00:42]

Warm and fair [00:00:46]

The skies were blue and hazy [00:00:52]

Rarely a storm Barely a chill[00:00:56]

La la la la[00:01:00]

The afternoons were lazy [00:01:02]

Everyone warm Everything still [00:01:06]

La la la la[00:01:09]

And there was distant music [00:01:11]

Simple and somehow sublime [00:01:15]

Giving the nation[00:01:20]

A new syncopation[00:01:21]

The people called it ragtime [00:01:24]

Father was well-off [00:01:31]

Very well-off His considerable[00:01:32]

Income was derived from the manufacture and sale of[00:01:35]

Fireworks and other accoutrements of patriotism Father[00:01:37]

Was also something of an amateur explorer [00:01:41]

The house on the hill in new rochelle was mother's[00:01:46]

Domain She took pleasure in making it comfortable[00:01:49]

For the men of her family and often told herself how[00:01:52]

Fortunate she was to be so protected and provided for[00:01:55]

By her husband [00:01:59]

Mother's younger brother worked at father's fireworks[00:02:03]

Factory He was a genius at explosives But he was also[00:02:05]

A young man in search of something to believe in His[00:02:10]

Sisterwondered when he would find it [00:02:14]

Grandfather had been a professor of greek and latin Now[00:02:19]

Retired and living with his daughter and her family he[00:02:23]

Was thoroughly irritated by everything [00:02:26]

The days were gently tinted[00:02:32]

Lavender pink lemon and lime [00:02:36]

Ladies with parasols[00:02:40]

Fellows with tennis balls[00:02:42]

There were gazebos and[00:02:44]

The were no negroes[00:02:46]

And everything was ragtime [00:02:50]

Listen to the ragtime [00:03:05]

In harlem men and women of color forgot their[00:03:09]

Troubles and danced and reveled to the music of[00:03:11]

Coalhouse walker jr This was a music that was theirs[00:03:14]

And no one else's [00:03:18]

One young woman thought coalhouse played just for her [00:03:20]

Her name was sarah [00:03:22]

Ooooh[00:03:25]

Booker t Washington was the most famous negro[00:03:26]

In the country He counselled friendship between the[00:03:28]

Races and spoke of the promise of the future He had no[00:03:31]

Patience for negroes who lived less than exemplary lives [00:03:35]

Ladies with parasols [00:03:43]

Fellows with tennis balls [00:03:45]

There were no negroes[00:03:47]

And there were no immigrants [00:03:49]

In latvia a man dremed of a new life[00:04:07]

For his little girl [00:04:10]

It would be a long journey a treeible one [00:04:11]

He would not lose her as he had her mother [00:04:14]

His name was tateh He never spoke of his wife [00:04:16]

The little girl was all he had now [00:04:20]

Together they would escape [00:04:22]

Houdini Look it's houdini [00:04:26]

Ooh aah [00:04:33]

Ooh aah [00:04:40]

Harry houdini was one immigrant who made and art of[00:04:46]

Escape He was a headliner in the top vaudeville circuits [00:04:50]

Ich bin die mutter des grossen houdinis[00:04:54]

He mad his mother proud But for all his achievements he[00:04:58]

Knew he was only an illusionist He wanted to believe[00:05:02]

There was more[00:05:05]

Hello sonny [00:05:07]

Warn the duke [00:05:08]

What did you say [00:05:10]

And there was distant music[00:05:12]

Changing the tune changing the time [00:05:15]

Giving the nation[00:05:19]

A new syncopation:[00:05:21]

La la la[00:05:23]

Certain men make a country great [00:05:25]

They can't help it [00:05:27]

At the very apex of the american pyramid[00:05:29]

That's the very tip-top [00:05:32]

Like pharoahs reincarnate stood j p Morgan [00:05:33]

And henry ford [00:05:37]

All men are born equal [00:05:39]

But the cream rises to the top [00:05:41]

Let me at those sosn of bitches [00:05:45]

These men are the[00:05:48]

Demons who are sucking your very souls dry [00:05:49]

I hate them [00:05:53]

Someone should arrest that woman [00:05:54]

The radical anarchist emma goldman fought against the[00:05:57]

Ravages of american capitalism as she watched her fellow[00:06:01]

Immigrants' hopes turn to despair on the lower east side [00:06:05]

La la la[00:06:11]

La la la la[00:06:12]

Whee [00:06:15]

But america was watching another drama [00:06:15]

Evelyn nesbit was the most beautiful woman in america [00:06:18]

If she wore her hair in curls [00:06:22]

Every woman wore her hair[00:06:24]

In curls [00:06:26]

Her lover was the eminent architect stanford white [00:06:27]

Designer of the pennsylvania station on 33rd street [00:06:30]

Her husband the eccentric millionaire harry k Thaw [00:06:35]

Was a violent man [00:06:40]

After her husband shot her lover [00:06:43]

Evelyn became the biggest[00:06:46]

Attraction in vaudeville since tom thumb [00:06:47]

La la la la la[00:06:51]

Bang [00:06:53]

La la la[00:06:54]

Bang [00:06:55]

La[00:06:55]

Bang [00:06:56]

And although the newspapers called the shooting the[00:06:56]

Crime of the century goldman knew it was only 1906[00:07:00]

And there were ninety-four years to go [00:07:05]

Whee [00:07:08]

And there was music playing [00:07:10]

Catching a nation in it's prime[00:07:14]

Beggar and millionaire[00:07:18]

Everyone everywhere[00:07:20]

Moving to the ragtime [00:07:22]

And there was distant music[00:08:20]

Skipping a beat singing a dream [00:08:25]

La la la la[00:08:28]

A strange insistent music[00:08:31]

Putting out heat [00:08:35]

Picking up steam [00:08:37]

La la la la[00:08:39]

The sound of distant thunder[00:08:41]

Suddenly starting to climb[00:08:45]

It was the music[00:08:51]

Of something beginning [00:08:53]

An era exploding [00:08:55]

A century spinning[00:08:56]

In riches and rags [00:08:58]

And in rhythm and rhyme [00:08:59]

The people called it Ragtime[00:09:02]

Ragtime [00:09:04]

Ragtime [00:09:08]

Ragitme[00:09:12]