[RACE]
Hey!
That's my cigar!
[ALBERT]
You'll steal another!
[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 pickings guaranteed
[FINCH]
Try any banker, bum, or barber
They almost all knows how to read
[JACK]
It's a crooked game we're playin'
One we'll never lose
Long as s**ers don't mind payin'
Just to get bad news
[NEWSIES]
Ain't 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]
Hey, Crutchie, what's your leg say, gonna rain?
[CRUTCHIE]
Uhh, no rain...
Ho-ho, partly cloudy clear by evenin'
[RACE]
Ha! And the limp sells fifty papes a week, all by itself!
[CRUTCHIE]
I don't need the limp to sell papes
I got personality
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?
Waiting makes me antsy
[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 [RACE] Curdled [ELMER] [NUNS] Just give me half a cup Blessed children coffee [HENRY] Somethin' to wake me up Concrete donuts [ROMEO] I gotta find an angle Sprinkled with mold [TOMMY BOY] It's gettin bad out there [MUSH] Homemade Papers is all I got [SPECS] Jesus loves you It's 88 degrees [JO-JO] biscuits JACK says to change my spot [SNIPER] Wish I could catch a breeze [FINCH] Just two Maybe it's worth a shot [bu*tONS] All I can catch is fleas years old [JACK]
If I hate the headline
I'll make up a headline
[JACK AND CRUTCHIE]
And I'll say anything I have'ta
[JACK, CRUTCHIE, RACE, AND ROMEO]
'Cause at two for a penny if I take too many
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta'! [NEWSIES GROUP 1] [NEWSIES GROUP 2] Got a feelin' bout the headline! I smells me a headline! I do too, so it must be true Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away! Betcha dinner it's a doozy What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich 'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy Who knows how to make a Newsie's day! 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!
[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
Walking ‘til we fall [NEWSIES GROUP 1] [NEWSIES GROUP 2] But we'll be out there Got a feelin' 'bout the headline Carrying the banner man to man! I smells me a headline Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away We're always out there Betcha dinner it's a doozy Soakin' every s**er that we can! 'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy Don't know any better way to make a Newsie's day! See the headline: I was stakin' out the circus, Newsies on a mission! And then someone said that Coney's really hot k** the competition, But when I got there, Sell the next edition! there was Spot with all his cronies, We'll be out there, Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play with the ponies! Carrying the banner! See us out there, We at least deserves a headline for the hours that they work us Carrying the banner! Always out there, Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus... Carrying the banner! [NEWSIES]
We'll all 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!