Rags: The New American Musical: Brand New World

REBECCA
Sha-sha-sha-sha, Duvaded
One more day is passed, love
In the morning, you will see
We'll find Papa, and we'll be
Safe, again, at last, love
Now, it's just the pair of us
Facing such a cold world
Papa will take care of us
Like the old world
Like our old world

What's that music
Playing down there in the street?
On that pushcart
Is that a thing you could eat?
That one
Why's he yelling so loud at the fat one?
What a crowd they got
Who's that lady
What has she got on her head?
No more hats, dear
It's feathers and fruit instead
So many noises
Colors
Mixed up and swirled
Into a brand new world here
Here we are
In a brand new

DAVID
Mama, Mama!

REBECCA
Hush, now hush, my Duvaded
See, there's nothing wrong, love
Through so much, we've come so far
Acting braver than we are
Missing Papa
And our sweet old -
There's that music
Listen, it's playing so nice
See that wagon
All full of nothing but ice
Look there
See the clothing so fine
Like a book there
Ah! There's a chinaman
See that lady
Where did she find all those eggs?
Look at that one
No, don't, you could see her legs
That ain't no town there
Down there
Tumbled and twirled
No, that's a brand new world here
Look at us in a brand new

Look, David
Watch, David

DAVID
I am, Mama

REBECCA
Listen, David
Learn, David

DAVID
I will, Mama

REBECCA
Now it belongs to you
To you

DAVID
Where's that music

REBECCA
See that sign here

DAVID
I wanna hear it again

REBECCA
Covered with words I can't read

DAVID
All those automobiles they've got here

REBECCA
All these people

DAVID
I must've seen at least ten

REBECCA
Selling you things you don't need

DAVID
Everybody's so

BOTH
Busy
They're so busy they're making me dizzy
My head's aching from all this noise here
Everyone hollers and

REBECCA
Yells

DAVID
Motors and sirens and whistles and bells

BOTH
And the air here
Is all loaded up
With smells
It's such a
Feeling
Reeling
Like we've been hurled
A million miles and landed
Right at the heart

DAVID
Did you see what that man did?

REBECCA
Look at the cart!

BOTH
We may be lost and stranded
But we're part
Of a brand new world