RACE:
Hey! That's my cigar!
ALBERT:
You'll steal anudder.
SPECS:
Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo!
HENRY:
I thought that I'd surprise my mother.
ALBERT:
If you can find her.
NEWSIES:
Who asked you?!
RACE:
From Bottle Alley to the harbor
There's easy pickin's guaranteed
Try any banker, bum, or barber
They almost all knows how to read!
JACK:
It's a crooked game we're playing,
One we'll never lose.
Long as s**ers don't mind paying,
Just to get bad news!
NEWSIES:
Aint it a fine life
Carrying the banner through it all
A mighty fine life,
Carrying 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,
Carrying the banner home-free all!
FINCH:
(Spoken)
Hey, Crutchie! What's your leg say?
Gonna rain?
CRUTCHIE:
Uhh, no rain.
Oh-ho! Partly cloudy, clear by evening!
RACE:
Ha!
And the limp sells fifty papes a week,
all by itself!
CRUTCHIE:
Ah, I don't need the limp to sell papes.
I got poisonality!
(Sung)
It takes a smile that spreads like bu*ter,
The kind that turns a lady's head.
RACE:
It takes an orphan with a stutter,
FINCH:
Who's also blind-
ALBERT:
And mute-
ELMER:
And dead!
CRUTCHIE, bu*tONS, JO-JO:
Summer stinks and winters freezing
When you works outdoors
JACK, TOMMY BOY, CRUTCHIE, bu*tONS, JO-JO:
Start out sweatin,
End up sneezin'
In between it pours!
NEWSIES:
Still it's a fine life,
Carrying the banner with me chums,
A bunch of big shots,
Tossin' out a freebie to the bums.
FINCH:
Hey, what's the hold up,
Sitting makes me antsy
I likes livin' chancey
NEWSIES:
Harlem to Delancey,
What a fine life
Carrying the banner through the...
NUNS:
Blessed children,
Though you wander lost and depraved,
Jesus loves you,
You shall be saved
(Next two verses simultaneously)
RACE:
Curdled coffee,
Concrete donuts sprinkled with mold
Homemade biscuits
Just two years old
ELMER: Just gimme half a cup.
HENRY: Something to wake me up.
ROMEO: I gotta find an angle
TOMMY BOY: It's gettin' bad out there.
MUSH: Papers is all I got.
SPECS: It's eighty-eight degrees.
JO-JO: Jack says to change my spot.
SNIPER: Wish I could catch a breeze
FINCH: Maybe it's worth a shot.
bu*tONS: All I can catch is fleas.
JACK:
If I hate a headline
I'll make up the headline
JACK AND CRUTCHIE:
And I'll say anything I have'ta
'Cause at two for a penny
JACK, CRUTCHIE, RACE, AND ROMEO:
If I take too many
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta'!
(Next two verses simultaneously)
NEWSIES GROUP 1:
Got a feelin' bout the headline!
I smells me a headline!
Papes are gonna sell
Like we was givin' them away!
Bet'ya dinner it's a doozy
'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy,
Who knows how to make a Newsie's day!
NEWSIES GROUP 2:
I do, too!
So it must be true!
What a switch!
Soon we'll all be rich!
Don't know any better way to
Make a Newsie's day!
NEWSIES TOGETHER:
You wanna move the new edition?!
Give us an earthquake or a war!
ELMER:
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
Walkin' till we fall
(The next two are sung together )
NEWSIES GROUP 1:
But we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
We're always out there,
Soakin' every s**er that we can!
Here's the headline:
Newsies on a mission!
k** the competition!
Sell the next edition!
We'll be out there
Carrying the banner!
See us out there,
Carrying the banner!
Always out there,
Carrying the banner!
NEWSIES GROUP 2:
Got a feelin' bout the headline!
I smells me a headline!
Papes are gonna sell
Like we was givin' them away!
Bet'ya dinner it's a doozy
'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy,
Don't know any better way
To make a Newsie's day!
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 deserves a headline
For the hours that they work us
Jeez, I bet if I just stayed
A little longer at the circus...
NEWSIES:
But we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
We're always out there,
Soakin' every s**er that we can!
Here's the headline:
Newsies on a mission!
k** the competition!
Sell the next edition!
We'll be out there
Carrying the banner!
See us out there,
Carrying the banner!
Always out there,
Carrying the banner!
Ahh, ahh, ahh, go!