Carrying The Banner

Hey! That's my cigar!
Go steal another!
(referring to the other boys)
Hey, look, its bath time at the zoo!
I thought that i'd surprise my mother
If you can find her
Who asked you?
From bottle alley to the harbor
Theres easy pickins guaranteed.

Try any banker, bum, or barber
They almost all knows how to read
It's a crooked game we're playin'
One well never lose
Long as suckers dont mind payin
Just to get bad news!

Ain't it a fine life
Carrying the banner through it all!
A mighty fine life
Carrying the banner tough and tall
When that bell rings
We goes where we wishes
Wes as free as fishes
Sure beats washin dishes
What a fine life
Carrying the banner home free all.

Hey, crutchie, whats your leg say? Gonna rain?
(shakes his leg)
No rain. Partly cloudy. Clear by evening
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 butter
The kind that turns a lady's head.

It takes an orphan with a stutter
Who's also blind
And mute
And dead!
Summer stinks and winters freezin
When you works outdoors
Start out sweatin', end up sneezin'
In between it pours!

Still its a fine life
Carrying the banner with me chums
A bunch of big shots
Tossin out a freebie to the bums
Hey! Whats the hold up?
Waitin makes me antsy
I likes living chancey.

Harlem to delancey
What a fine life
Carrying the banner through the
Blessed children
Though you wander lost and depraved
Jesus loves you
You shall be saved.

Curdled coffee
Concrete doughnuts sprinkled with mold
Homemade
Biscuits
Just two years old.

If i hate the headline
I'll make up a headline
And i'll say anything i haveta
Cause at two for a penny
If i take too many
Weasel just makes me eat em afta

Got a feelin bout the headline!
I smells me a headline!
Papes are gonna sell like we was givin em away!
Betcha dinner its a doozy
Bout a pistol-packin floozy
Who knows how to make a newsies day!

You wanna move
The next edition?
Give us an earthquake or a war
How bout a crooked politician?
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!

But well be out there
Carrying the banner man to man
Were always out there
Soakin evry sucker that we can
Heres the headline
Newsies on a mission!
Kill the competition!
Sell the next edition!
Well be out there
Carrying the banner!
See us out there
Carrying the banner!
Always out there
Carrying the banner!

Well all be out there
Carrying the banner man to man
Were always out there
Soakin evry sucker that we can
Heres the headline
Newsies on a mission!
Kill the competition!
Sell the next edition!
Well be out there
Carrying the banner!
See us out there
Carrying the banner!
Always out there
Carrying the banner!
Ah
Ah
Ah
Go!