The Night that Goldman Spoke at Union Square-David Loud/Judy Kaye/Peter Friedman/Steven Sutcliffe

[ti:The Night That Goldman Spoke At] [ar:Musical Cast Recording] [al:Ragtime] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Night that Goldman Spoke at Union Square - David Loud/Judy Kaye (Judy Kaye)/Peter Friedman/Steven Sutcliffe (Steven Sutcliffe) [00:02.70]I have just returned from Lawrence Massachusetts [00:05.95]Where eight weeks ago the workers there went on strike [00:09.24] [00:09.74]They are starving their children are dying but they are holding firm [00:14.41]And we must support them [00:16.74] [00:18.25]It was winter in New York [00:20.49]As the snow began to fall [00:22.85]And the workmen's hall that not a seat to spare [00:26.77]When a young man docked inside [00:29.06]Just to warm himself was all [00:31.62]The night that Goldman spoke at Union Square [00:37.45]What is happening in Lawrence is happening everywhere [00:40.96]Let us at last to make this the land [00:43.27]Of opportunity for all people not just the owners [00:46.87]The land of opportunity [00:48.18]For tateh and his little girl [00:49.87]We cannot rest [00:51.92] [00:52.76]She was speaking loud and fast [00:55.02]Through a haze of noise and heat [00:57.08]And the smell of sweat and anger in the air [01:01.39]The police were standing by [01:03.54]But the crowd was on it's feet [01:06.07]The night that Goldman spoke at Union Square [01:12.70]You he thought he heard her say [01:14.92]What brings you here today [01:16.92]Poor young rich boy [01:19.29]Masturbates for a Vaudeville tart [01:21.48]What a waste of a fiery heart [01:23.64]Dear he thought she said [01:25.68]Poor young bourgeois [01:28.16]There are things that you've never thought [01:30.11]Come to Emma and you'll be taught [01:32.46]Here [01:33.11]His head was spinning [01:34.68]People feathered and tarred my friend [01:36.66]Unions broken and why for [01:38.97]Children laboring women still enslaved [01:42.55] [01:43.13]Leave you little backyard my friend [01:45.30]There are causes to die for [01:47.56]Strike in the gutters of the city [01:49.79]I have tried to find some meaning [01:51.82]Strike in the arms of fallen women [01:54.14]In the thought of suicide [01:55.86]Strike [01:56.52]Like a firework unexploded [01:58.53]Wanting life but never knowing how [02:00.96]My brother life has meaning [02:02.69]I'll show you how [02:04.16]Till now [02:05.08]My brother you are with us now [02:08.16]He was calling out her name [02:10.47]Shouting what he did not know [02:12.69]And he found that he was standing on a chair [02:16.29] [02:16.82]With a heart as clean and new [02:19.07]As the freshly fallen snow [02:21.79]The night that Goldman spoke [02:24.79] [02:25.47]I've been waiting for you [02:27.81]At Union Square [02:35.11]Strike strike strike strike strike strike strike strike strike strike strike [02:43.46]Strike strike strike [02:46.54] [02:50.63]I hate you godd**ned America [02:53.44]Tateh tateh tateh tateh tateh tateh