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Album Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast of Ragtime: The Musical

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Marin Mazzie & Peter Friedman

1998

Our Children by Marin Mazzie & Peter Friedman

Release Date
Tue Apr 28 1998
Performed by
Marin Mazzie & Peter Friedman
Produced by
Jay David Saks
Writed by
Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens & Terrence McNally
About

In this number from the musical, Ragtime, Mother and Tateh watch their children play on the beach in Atlantic City. The song becomes a metaphor for hope in the future.

Our Children Lyrics

[MOTHER]
How they play
Finding treasure in the sand
They're forever hand in hand
Our children

[TATEH]
How they laugh
She has never laughed like this

[MOTHER]
Every waking moment, bliss

[MOTHER & TATEH]
Our children

[TATEH]
See them running down the beach
Children run so fast—

[MOTHER]
Toward the future—

[TATEH]
From the past

[MOTHER]
How they dance
Unembarrassed and alone

[MOTHER & TATEH]
Hearing music of their own
Our children

[TATEH]
One so fair

[MOTHER]
And the other, lithe and dark

[MOTHER & TATEH]
Solemn joy and sudden spark
Our children
See them running down the beach
Children run so fast
Toward the future
From the past
There they stand
Making footprints in the sand
And forever hand in hand
Our children
Two small lives
Silhouetted by the blue
One like me
And one like you
Our children
Our children

[MOTHER, spoken]
Well.

[TATEH, spoken]
You say that often. "Well."

[MOTHER, spoken]
It's because I don't know what to say, Baron.

[TATEH, spoken]
I'm, I'm not a Baron, of course. I'm a poor immigrant, a Jew who points a camera so that his child can dress as beautifully as a princess. I want to drive from her memory every tenement stench and filthy immigrant street. I will buy her light and sun and clean wind of the ocean for the rest of her life. Now you know me. Now you understand. I am no Baron. I am Tateh.

[MOTHER, spoken]
Now I know even less what to say.

[TATEH, spoken]
Hmm. Now it's my turn: Well.

[MOTHER, spoken]
Thank you for your confidence. I shall keep it here.

Our Children Q&A

Who wrote Our Children's ?

Our Children was written by Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens & Terrence McNally.

Who produced Our Children's ?

Our Children was produced by Jay David Saks.

When did Marin Mazzie & Peter Friedman release Our Children?

Marin Mazzie & Peter Friedman released Our Children on Tue Apr 28 1998.

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