Ragtime movie - Success lyrics
rate me<br>
[TATEH]<br>
I promised you America<br>
And little one, we're there.<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS, LITTLE GIRL]<br>
America!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
Out feet are on the solid ground<br>
And hope is in the air!<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS, LITTLE GIRL]<br>
America!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
You'll soon be eating apple pie<br>
From off a china plate.<br>
Pretty dresses, pretty dolls,<br>
Just wait!<br>
For shining in your Tateh's eye<br>
And just beyond this gate-<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
America!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
Here in America<br>
Anyone at all can succeed.<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS]<br>
America! Here in America!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
Do what you do,<br>
And the world will come to you<br>
Guranteed!<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS]<br>
America! Here in America!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
I may be just a maker of art,<br>
But here you can start with less<br>
And make a success!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
Step right up and have a silhouette made by <br>
a real artist! With ordinary paper, a pair of scissors<br>
and some glue I will give you a thing of such<br>
beauty! A life-like portrait of someone you love.<br>
Silhouettes of your favorite celebrity.<br>
<br>
Evelyn Nesbit. Hey look!<br>
She's on her Vaudeville stage.<br>
harry Houdini. He practically escapes<br>
From the page.<br>
Only a nickel.<br>
Don't walk away!<br>
Someday these will impress<br>
When I'm a success!<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS (2 groups)]<br>
America, America.<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
Look at the silhouettes<br>
Here in the tenements,<br>
Bent over sewing<br>
Or dancing or arguing<br>
Thouands of silhouettes,<br>
Thousands of stories to tell.<br>
<br>
Look at them, little one,<br>
Such opportunity!<br>
Right on the corner of<br>
Orchard and Rivington.<br>
We'll make our silhouettes,<br>
Think how they'll sell.<br>
We'll join the parade<br>
or Americans all doing well!<br>
<br>
[IMMGRANTS]<br>
Success!<br>
Success!<br>
<br>
[MORGAN]<br>
I'm J.P. Morgan my friends<br>
The wealthiest man on this earth!<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS]<br>
Success!<br>
<br>
[MORGAN]<br>
You immigrants, look up to me<br>
And you'll see what money is worth!<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS]<br>
Success!<br>
<br>
[MORGAN]<br>
One day your immigrant sweat<br>
Might get you the whole U.S.!<br>
<br>
[HOUDINI]<br>
And if you're trapped<br>
And failure seems imminent,<br>
Think of Houdini,<br>
That fabulous immigrant!<br>
Break those chains with all you possess!<br>
<br>
[MORGAN, IMMIGRANTS]<br>
This is America!<br>
This is the land of success!<br>
<br>
[SAME & TATEH]<br>
Success!<br>
<br>
[EMMA GOLDMAN]<br>
The angry, fetid tenements of the Lower East Side were<br>
worse than anything Tateh and his wife suffered in Latvia.<br>
The Little Girl was often sick now. <br>
Tateh wrapped her in his prayer shawl. <br>
What rabbi would disapprove?<br>
<br>
[IMMIGRANTS]<br>
America!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
Look at my daughter, God.<br>
Why have you brought us here?<br>
How can I feed her or clothe <br>
Or protect her here?<br>
Where's the America<br>
We were supposed to get?<br>
Was it a silhouette?<br>
hey, mister,<br>
Here in America<br>
Anything you want, you can be!<br>
<br>
Sucker, step up, <br>
And I'll cut you out your own guratee!<br>
Come see the artist!<br>
Big shot, oh yes!<br>
red, white and blue!<br>
Hoorau and God bless!<br>
I'm a success!<br>
I'm a success!<br>
Success!<br>
Success!<br>
<br>
[HOUDINI]<br>
And if you're trapped<br>
And failure seems imminent,<br>
Think of Houdini,<br>
That fabulous immigrant!<br>
Break those chains with all you possess!<br>
<br>
[TATEH]<br>
I promised you America,<br>
And little one...<br>
We will find it.<br>
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