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Charles Strouse - Rags: The New American Musical: Uptown lyrics

Artist: Charles Strouse

album: Rags: The New American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)


Greasy little maggots
Swarming in the streets
With the noises of their weeping
And the smell of rotting meats
That's the way they look at us
Slimy bits, grimy beards
That's the way they look at us
It ain't a pretty sight
But look down there, Rebecca
You know what?
They're right
But look, Rebecca
You see that glow in the sky?
Uptown
When I'm someone and on my feet again
Uptown
Then we'll never see Suffolk Street again
No more two-room flat
Charity
Chicken fat
Glass of tea
Taking in a cup
Like our neighbors uptown
No more living where life embarrasses
For the Harrises
Uptown
No more sweltering on the stoop again
(We could have our own room)
Uptown
No more suppers of cabbage soup again
(Only American soup)
With my pocket-watch
And cheroot
David in a store-bought suit?
Dream of life
Gleaming fine
I'm your wife; your dream is mine
We'll look down on them
And we won't remember
How shut out of the golden door we were
Back before we were
Uptown
♪
Cabbage soup I will never eat again
Uptown
And I'll never see Suffolk Street again
I remember sitting, you and I
While the cranes were calling
Sometimes we can't love things
Till we tell them goodbye
Oh, my homeland
My homeland
Goodbye

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