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Atlantic City Lyrics by Lynnette Perry

Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

1998

[EVELYN NESBIT]
Oh, whee!
Let's run away to Atlantic City
Let's feel the wind in our hair
[FATHER, spoken]
Atlantic City is only a temporary answer, Mother, but I can't think of a better one. They can't take the child away from you if we're in residence down there. And it's close enough for me to come and go as business dictates. 
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Sharing a grand and romantic city
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Sea and salty air
[FATHER, spoken]
Besides, the change of air will do everyone good. Did you pack my razor?
[MOTHER, spoken]
Yes. 
[FATHER, spoken]
I hope you reserved us a parlor car?
[MOTHER, spoken]
I did. 
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Train's gonna take us to the sunniest hideaway
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Troubles will slide away
[EVELYN NESBIT & HARRY HOUDINI]
Just a ride away
[FATHER, spoken]
It was clear to Father that the crisis was driving the spirit from their lives. He had always secretly believed that as a family they were touched by an extra light. He felt it going now. Mother, I—
[MOTHER, spoken]
There's the cab. 
[FATHER]
Where have I been?
How did we change?
Caught in this strange new music
Say, was I away too long?
Say, when they did they change the song?
[VACATIONERS]
Let's run away to Atlantic City
Let's feel the wind in our hair
Sharing a grand and romantic city
Sea and salty air
Train's gonna take us
To the sunniest hideaway
Troubles will slide away
[WOMEN]
Just a ride away
[VACATIONERS]
So let's run away to Atlantic City
No one will find us there
Down on the sand
There's a ragtime band
[BAND MEMBERS]
With a brand-new
Ragtime tune
[ENSEMBLE]
And up in the sky
There's a grand New Jersey moon
Let's go there soon
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Whee!
I was once the lady friend of Stanford White
Made me a celebrity overnight
Well, overnight things change I guess
I'm in New Jersey wearing even less
Ladies, there's a lesson in my tawdry tale
Beware the path you choose
Oh! Oh! Justice is never fair
Bang! Bang! There goes your millionaire
Boo hoo! No money, no ring
And you could end up on a swing
And it's a crime
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Harry Houdini, Master Escapist
Buried and chained and tied
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Oh, justice can be so unfair
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Reaching for danger, darker and stranger
Now that his mama's died
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Bang! There goes your millionaire
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Conquering fear in hopes he will hear
A voice from the other side
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Oh, whee!
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Come see Houdini's daring display
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Come see Miss Nesbit do four shows a day
[EVELYN NESBIT & HARRY HOUDINI]
Thrilling the crowd and making 'em say
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Let's run away
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Let's run away
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Let's run away
[HARRY HOUDINI]
Let's run away
[EVELYN NESBIT]
Away
[EVELYN NESBIT & HARRY HOUDINI]
Away
[ENSEMBLE]
Let's run away to Atlantic City
My honey
Why should we stay in the frantic city
Laden with worry and care?
Oh, let's run away to Atlantic City
No one will find us
[EVELYN NESBIT]
No one will find us
[ALL]
No one will find us there
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