Newsies:
Ain't it a fine
life
Carrying the banner through it all?
A mighty fine life
Carrying the banner tough
and tall
Every morning
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!
Jack:
It takes a smile as sweet as butter
Crutchy:
The kind
that ladies can't resist
Racetrack:
It takes an orphan with a
stutter
Jack:
Who ain't afraid ta use his
Kid
Blink:
Fist!
Newsies:
Summer stinks and winter's waiting
Welcome to New
Yawk!
Boy, ain't nature fascinating
When youse gotta walk?
Still, it's a fine
life
Carrying the banner with me chums!
A mighty fine life
Blowing every nickel as it
comes
Crutchy:
I'm no snoozer
Sitting makes me antsy
I likes living
chancy
Newsies:
Harlem tah Delancey
What a fine life
Carrying the banner
through the slums
Nuns:
Blessed children
Though you wander lost and
depraved
Jesus loves you
You shall be saved!
SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:
Patrick's Mother
Patrick, darling,
Since you left me I am undone
Mother
loves you!
God, save my son!
Racetrack:
Just gimme half a cup
Kid
Blink:
Something ta wake me up
Mush:
I gotta find an
angle
Crutchy:
I gotta sell more papes
Various Newsies:
Papers is
all I got
Wish I could catch a breeze
Sure hope the headline's hot
All I can catch is
fleas
God, help me if it's not!
Somebody help me, please ...
Newsies:
If I
hate the headlines
I'll make up the headline
And I'll say anything I hafta
'Cause at
two for a penny
If I take too many
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta
SUNG IN
COUNTERPOINT
1. Look! They're putting up a headline
They call that a headline?
I get
better stories
From the copper on the beat!
I was gonna start at twenty
Now a
dozen'll be plenty
Tell me, how'm I gonna make ends meet?
2. What's it
say?
That won't pay!
So where's your spot?
God, it's hot!
Will ya tell
me
How'm I gonna make ends meet?
Newsies:
We need a good assassination!
We
need an earthquake or a war!
Snipeshooter:
How 'bout a crooked
politician?
Newsies:
Hey, stupid
That ain't news no more!
Uptown to Grand
Central Station
Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walking till we
fall
SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:
1. Still we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man
to man!
We'll be out there
Soaking every sucker that we can!
See the
headline:
Newsies on a mission!
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
While
we're out there
Carrying the banner is the--
2. Look, they're putting up a
headline
They call that a headline?
The idiot who wrote it
Must be working for the
Sun!
Didja hear about the fire?
3. Heard it killed old man Maguire!
2. Heard the toll
was even higher
3.Why do I miss all the fun?
2. Hitched it on a trolley
3.
Meetcha Forty-fourth and Second
2. Little Italy's a secret
3. Bleecker's further than I
reckoned
2. By the courthouse
3. Near the stables
2. On the corner someone beckoned!
and I ...
1. It's a fine life
Carrying the banner through it all?
A mighty fine
life
Carrying the banner tough and tall
See the headline
Newsies on a
mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
What a fine life,
Carrying
the banner!...
2. Would you look at that headline?
You call that a headline?
I
get better stories
From the copper on the beat!
I was gonna start with twenty
Now a
dozen'll be plenty
Would you tell me how'm I ever
Gonna make ends meet?
Hitched
it on a trolley
Meetcha Forty-fourth and Second
Little Italy's a secret
Bleecker's
further than I reckoned
By the courthouse
Near the stables
On the corner someone
beckoned!
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