Ragtime movie - President lyrics

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YOUNGER BROTHER<br>

The Republican vice-presidential candidate was to be in the city that evening to attend a rally. The Secret Service was at<br>

the ready. The recent assassination of President McKinley had been a lesson well learned. Guns were going off everywhere. <br>

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(The Vice Presidential campaign enters. Posters, banners, a marching band, the incumbent candidate waving. He poses for<br>

photographs with J.P. MORGAN on the back of a train. But it's all slightly surreal, as filtered through SARAH's<br>

consciousness.) <br>

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SARAH<br>

I'll tell him...<br>

President, I am coming to you<br>

On behalf of Coalhouse Walker<br>

He don't know I'm here...<br>

He's much too proud!<br>

And I ain't much of a talker<br>

But President, he needs your help, sir<br>

You're the only one<br>

'Cause Coalhouse, he won't marry me<br>

Till this thing is done<br>

And President, we got a son! <br>

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(The march music is suddenly very loud, very real. SARAH breaks through the police barricade and rushes towards him, her arm<br>

outstretched to him.) <br>

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SARAH<br>

President! President!!<br>

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MORGAN<br>

She's got a gun! <br>

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(The police officers club SARAH with their nightsticks. She falls to the ground.)<br>

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[Thanks to Yehuda Alexander for lyrics]<br>

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