Newsies - Carrying The Banner lyrics

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!