Ray Charles - Soliciting Subscriptions lyrics

[Verse] We bring drama to your great metropolis We are the little theatre group Each of us has built a small acropolis To hold our little theatre troupe We'd be very glad to meet you, and greet you, and seat you and treat you just Great For all commercial art is hollow; So follow Apollo and swallow our bait Help to serve the art of your Cosmopolis If you'll be one of us Each son of us will welcome you at the gate The neighborhood playhouse may shine below the Macy Gimbel line It was built to make a ride for people on Fifth Avenue To Yeats and Synge and Shaw and such we add an oriental touch We bring out the aesthetic soul you didn't know you have in you We like to serve a mild dish of folk lore quaintly childish Or something Oscar Wildeish, in pantomime or dance Grand Street folk we never see'em, they think the place is a museum And we know just what we do, because we always take a chance The Provincetown Playhouse still owns the art of Robert Edmond Jones From the cla**ic drama we're a notable secessionist We've even made the censors feel the verity of Gene O'Neill The meaning doesn't matter if the manner is expressionist! Our one great contribution to art is revolution! Our mood is very "Roosh-in" you can tell it at a glance Our bare stage may look funny but it saves us lots of money And we know just what we do, Because we always take a chance For your attention, many thanks we've brought along subscription blanks For actor's Theatre that the audience may glory in The dear old "Servant in the House" the "Pride of Mister Rankin Touse," And plays by Henrik Ibsen in a manner quite Victorian! We spurn the bedroom dramas with heroes in pajamas For things that pleased our Mamas such as Candida's romance We wear the sock and buskin to the taste of old John Ruskin And we know just what we do, because we never take a chance!