Greenhorns by The Rags: The Musical Original London Cast Recording Company Lyrics

[Ensemble, Immigrants]
Long live Columbus!
Long live Columbus!
Long live Mister
Christopher Columbus

[Two Americans]
Another load of greenhorns
Fresh off the boat
Another wave of refugees
To fill the mills and factories
A little grist
For the capital system

It's a bunch of grease balls
Greasin' the wheels
A little oil for the machine
Greenhorns
Ship 'em in
They keep our pockets full of green
Greenhorns
Greenhorns
Greenhorns

Why should we pay
For the manual labor
With a hunk of hunkies
Huntin' for jobs
They're dirty till we pick 'em clean

Greenhorns
How'd ya do?
You help to keep the greenback green

[Official #1, spoken]
Anyone who's ever had tuberculosis, over here in this line

[Official #2, spoken]
Anyone who has a white card, get in the barge!

[David, spoken]
Do we have a white card?

[Rebecca, spoken]
No. Stay close
[Two Americans, Immigrants]
Another mob of mockies makin' their way
The latest lot of dross and scums
Scurryin' from some new pogrom
To be a cog
In the great wheel of progress

It's a slew of suckers
Ready to pluck
Once they get out of quarantine

Greenhorns
Hebes and wops
But long as greenhorns
Work the shops
Pick the crops
Push the mops
Long live Columbus!
Eat the slops
Long live Columbus!

The flood of greenhorns
Never stops

[All]
Let's keep America
Long live America!
We'll keep America
Green