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Racetrack: That's my cigar
Snipeshooter: You'll steal anudder
Kid Blink: Hey, bummers
We got work tah do
Specs: Since when did you become me mudder?
Crutchy: Ah, stop yer bawling!
Newsies: Hey! Who ast you??
Mush: Try Bottle Alley or the harbor
Racetrack: Try Central Park, it's guaranteed
Jack: Try any banker, bum, or barber ...
Skittery: They almost all knows how to read!
Kid Blink: I smell money
Crutchy: You smell foul!
Mush: Met this goil last night ...
Crutchy: Move your elbow!
Racetrack: Pass the towel!
Skittery: For a buck, I might!
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,
[Racetrack: Just gimme half a cup]
darling,
[Kid Blink: Something ta wake me up]
Since you left me
[Mush: I gotta find an angle]
I am undone
[Crutchy: I gotta sell more papes]
Mother
[Various Newsies: Papers is all I got]
loves you!
[Wish I could catch a breeze Sure hope the headline's hot]
God, save my son!
[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]
Look! They're putting up a headline
They call that a headline?
[What's it say?]
I get better stories
From the copper on the beat!
[That won't pay!]
I was gonna start at twenty [So where's your spot?]
Now a dozen'll be plenty
[God, it's hot!]
Tell me, how'm I gonna make ends meet?Newsies
[Will ya tell me How'm I gonna make ends meet?]
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]
Still we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
[Look, they're putting up a headline
They call that a headline?]
We'll be out there
Soaking every sucker that we can!
[The idiot who wrote it
Must be working for the Sun!]
See the headline:
Newsies on a mission!
[Didja hear about the fire?
Heard it killed old man Maguire!
Heard the toll was even higher
why do I miss all the fun?]
Kill the competition
[Hitched it on a trolley
Meetcha Forty-fourth and Second
Little Italy's a secret]
Sell the next edition
[Bleecker's further than I reckoned]
While we're out there
Carrying the banner is the--
[By the courthouse, near the stables
On the corner someone beckoned! and I ...]
It's a fine life
[Would you look at that headline?
You call that a headline?
I get better stories
From the copper on the beat!]
Carrying the banner through it all?
[I was gonna start with twenty
Now a dozen'll be plenty]
A mighty fine life
[Would you tell me how'm I ever
Gonna make ends meet?]
Carrying the banner tough and tall
[Hitched it on a trolley
Meetcha Forty-fourth and Second ]
See the headline
Newsies on a mission
[Little Italy's a secret]
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
[Bleecker's further than I reckoned]
What a fine life,
Carrying the banner!...
[By the courthouse, near the stables
On the corner someone beckoned!]
It's a fine life, carrying the banner!
[Go get 'em Cowboy]
It's a fine life, carrying the banner!
[You got 'em now, boy]
It's a fine life, carrying the banner!
[Go get 'em Cowboy]
It's a fine life, carrying the banner!
[You got 'em now, boy]
It's a...
[Go!]
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