Success

[00:00.40] I promised you America
[00:02.02] And little one, we're there!
[00:04.73] (America!)
[00:07.08] Our feet are on the solid ground
[00:09.15] And hope is in the air!
[00:11.65] (America!)
[00:14.11] You'll soon be eating apple pie
[00:15.80] From off a china plate
[00:18.03] Pretty dresses, pretty dolls
[00:19.49] Just wait!
[00:21.76] For shining in your Tateh's eye
[00:24.02] And just beyond this gate—
[00:25.91] America!
[00:34.03] Here in America
[00:35.89] Anyone at all can succeed
[00:38.18] (America! Here in America!)
[00:41.46] Do what you do
[00:42.45] And the world will come to you
[00:44.11] Guranteed!
[00:45.46] (America! We're in America!)
[00:48.10] I may be just a maker of art
[00:51.49] But here you can start with less
[00:55.66] And make a success!
[01:00.68] Step right up and have a silhouette made by
[01:02.85] A real artist! With ordinary paper, a pair of scissors
[01:06.19] And some glue I will give you a thing of such
[01:08.42] Beauty! A life-like portrait of someone you love
[01:11.35] Silhouettes of your favorite celebrity
[01:14.67] Evelyn Nesbit. Hey look!
[01:16.22] She's on her Vaudeville stage
[01:21.36] Harry Houdini, he practically escapes
[01:24.26] From the page
[01:28.14] Only a nickel
[01:29.38] Don't walk away!
[01:30.94] Someday these will impress
[01:35.09] When I'm a success!
[01:42.42] (America, America)
[01:47.24] Look at the silhouettes
[01:48.58] Here in the tenements
[01:50.15] Bent over sewing
[01:51.03] Or dancing or arguing
[01:53.33] Thouands of silhouettes
[01:55.09] Thousands of stories to tell
[02:00.25] Look at them, little one
[02:02.16] Such opportunity!
[02:03.78] Right on the corner of
[02:05.33] Orchard and Rivington
[02:07.01] We'll make our silhouettes
[02:08.61] Think how they'll sell
[02:09.94] We'll join the parade
[02:11.67] Of Americans all doing well!
[02:18.02] Success!
[02:21.53] Success!
[02:22.14] I'm J.P. Morgan, my friends
[02:25.31] The wealthiest man on this earth!
[02:28.68] Success!
[02:29.23] You immigrants, look up to me
[02:32.24] And you'll see what money is worth!
[02:35.53] Success!
[02:36.49] One day your immigrant sweat
[02:39.06] Might get you the whole U.S.!
[02:43.29] And if you're trapped
[02:46.35] And failure seems imminent
[02:48.89] Think of Houdini
[02:50.48] That fabulous immigrant!
[02:53.39] Break those chains with all you possess!
[02:57.68] This is America!
[03:00.10] This is the land of success!
[03:06.23] Success!
[03:14.08] The angry, fetid tenements
[03:16.37] Of the Lower East Side
[03:17.86] Were worse than anything Tateh and his wife had
[03:20.81] Suffered in Latvia
[03:23.54] The Little Girl was often sick now
[03:26.23] Tateh wrapped her in his prayer shawl
[03:28.18] What rabbi would disapprove?
[03:30.81] America!
[03:34.66] America!
[03:36.61]
[03:55.99] Look at my daughter, God
[03:57.84] Why have you brought us here?
[04:00.20] How can I feed her or clothe
[04:02.45] Or protect her here?
[04:04.46] Where's the America
[04:06.41] We were supposed to get?
[04:08.79] Was it a silhouette?
[04:11.87] Hey, mister
[04:14.19] Here in America
[04:16.32] Anything you want, you can be!
[04:22.61] Sucker, step up
[04:24.13] And I'll cut you out your own guarantee!
[04:29.69] Come see the artist!
[04:31.56] Big shot, oh yes!
[04:33.12] Red, white and blue!
[04:34.43] Hooray and God bless!
[04:35.95] I'm a success!
[04:37.50] I'm a success!
[04:39.12] Success!
[04:40.75] Success!
[04:48.51] If you're trapped
[04:50.05] And failure seems imminent
[04:53.33] Think of Houdini
[04:55.28] That fabulous immigrant!
[04:58.52] Break those chains with all you possess!
[05:11.24] I promised you America
[05:15.53] And little one
[05:18.54] We will find it!
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