Carrying the Banner

Racetrack:
That's my cigar
Snipeshooter:
You'll steal another
Kid Blink:
Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo
Specs:
I thought that I'd suprise my mother
Snipeshooter:
If you could find her
Several Newsies:
Who asked you
Mush:
From Bottle Alley to the harbor
Racetrack:
There's easy pickings guaranteed
Jack:
Try any banker, bum, or barber...
Skittery:
They almost all knows how to read!
Jack:
It's a crooked game we're playin'
One we'll never lose
Long as suckers don't mind payin'
Just to get bad news
Newsies:
Ain't it a fine life
Carryin' the banner through it all
A mighty fine life
Carryin' the banner tough and tall
When the bell rings
We goes where we wishes
We's as free as fishes
Sure beats washing dishes
What a fine life
Carryin' the banner home-free all!
(Spoken)
Jack:
Hey Crutchie, what your leg say, gonna rain?
Crutchie:
No rain... Ha, partly cloudy clear by evenin'!
Jack:
And the limp sells 50 papes all by itself!
Crutchie:
I don't need a limp to sell papes. I've got personality.
(Sung)
It takes a smile that spreads like butter
The kind that turns a lady's head
Racetrack:
It takes an orphan with a stutter
Jack:
Who's also blind
Mush:
And mute
Kid Blink:
And dead!
Newsies:
Summer stinks and winter's freezing
When you works outdoors
Start out sweating end up sneezing
In between it pours!
Still, it's a fine life
Carryin' the banner with me chums
A bunch of big shots
Tossin' out a freebie to the bums
Race:
Hey! What's the hold up
Waitin' makes me antsy
I likes living chancey
Newsies:
Harlem to Delancey
What a fine life
Carryin' the banner through the
Three Nuns:
Blessed children
Though you wander lost and depraved
Jesus loves you
You shall be saved!
SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:
Curdled (just give me half a cup) coffee (something to wake me up)
Concrete donuts (I gotta find an angle) sprinkled with mold (it's gettin' bad out here)
Homemade (papers is all I got) biscuits (it's 88 degrees) (Jack says to change my spot) (wish I could catch a breeze)
Just two (maybe it's worth a shot) years old (all I can catch is fleas)
Newsies:
If I hate the headlines
I'll make up a headline
And I'll say anything I hafta
'Cause at two for a penny
If I take too many
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta
SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:
Group one:
Got a feelin' bout the headline
I smells me a headline
Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away
Betcha dinner it's a doozy
'bout a pistol-packing floozey
Who knows how to make a newsie's day
Group two:
I do too! So it must be true
What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich
Don't know a better way to make a newsie's day
Newsies:
You wanna move the next edition
Give us an earthquake or a war
Snipeshooter:
How 'bout a crooked politician
Newsies:
Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more
Uptown to Grand Central Station
Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walking till we fall
SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:
Group one:
But we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
We're always out there
Soakin' every sucker that we can!
See the headline:
Newsies on a mission!
Group two:
Got a feelin' bout the headline
I smells me a headline
Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away
Betcha dinner it's a doozy
'bout a pistol-packing floozey
Don't know any better way to make a newsie's day
Group one:
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
See us out there, carryin' the banner
Always out there, carryin' the banner
Group two:
I was stakin' out the circus and then someone said that coney's really hot
But when I got there, there was Spot with all his cronies
Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play with the ponies
We at least deserve a headline for the hours that they work us
Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus
We'll all be out there, carryin' the banner man to man
We're always out there, soakin' evey sucker that we can
Here's the headline:
Newsies on a mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
See us out there, carryin' the banner
Always out there, carryin' the banner
Ah, ah, ah, go!