Leo at Work / What Am I Waiting For?

Ever more lives the dream of Atlanta!

Ever more her eternal pride!

Strong and Sure is the dream of Atlanta!

When Her Brothers are unified!

Twenty-eight boxes of caps

At four dollars the gross

This is wrong, this is wrong

I can fix this, wait

Nine more boxes in back

Twenty-eight minus nine

And then thirty-one girls on the line

Suit and a tie (Times six, one eighty-six)

Terribly quiet (Divide ... seven sixty)

Quite a well-paid position (God, all the noise, and on "Yontiff" yet)

"Go on Lucille (Four cents a girl for the week)

Bring him his coffee" (At ten cents an hour)

Straight from New York, Lucille!

Isn't he smart, Lucille!

Mama, he's comin' around today

Mama, he's at the door!

Mama, I don't know what I should say

"Well what are you waitin' for Lucille?"

What am I waiting for?

This is wrong, this is wrong, it's an eight, not a six

House and a maid

Two sets of china

Everything I was wishin'

New winter coat

Real ermine collar

Who would have known Lucille?

Married so well Lucille?

How can he want me, so plain, so prim?

How can he be so sure?

Don't I wish I could be sure like him?

Like Leo?

(Yes, Lucille, I am building a life for us)

For Leo?

(No Lucille, we cannot have a picnic)

Didn't my wishes come true for me

The day he walked through the door?

Isn't he all that I knew he'd be?

Brilliant and filled with humility?

Loyal and stable as any tree?

So why do I wait for more?

What am I waiting for?

Twenty-tree cartons of leads

At two-sixty the gross

This is wrong, this is wrong

I can fix this

Hey

Yes?

I came for my pay

Name?

Mary Phagan