Carrying the banner

[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 suckers 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 butter
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, buttons, jo-jo]
Summer stinks and winters freezing
When you works outdoors

[Jack, tommy boy, crutchie, buttons, 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
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

[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
[Buttons]
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 groups 1 & 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 any 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]
Yeah, 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 groups 1 & 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 sucker 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
Kill 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 sucker that we can!
Here's the headline
Newsies on a mission!
Kill 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!