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Lyrics of Carrying the Banner by Newsies - Original Broadway Cast
intro
Hey! That's my cigar
You'll steal another
Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo
I thought that I'd suprise my mother
If you can find her
Who asked you?
verse
From Bottle Alley to the harbor
There's easy pickings guaranteed
Try any banker, bum, or barber
They almost all knows how to read!
verse
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
chorus
Ain't it a fine life
Carryin' the banner through it all
A mighty fine life
Carryin' 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
Carryin' the banner home-free all!
verse
Hey Crutchie, what your leg say, gonna rain?
No rain, partly cloudy, clear by evenin'!
And the limp sells fifty papes a week, all by itself!
I don't need the limp to sell papes, I've got personality
verse
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!
verse
Summer stinks and winter's freezing
When you works outdoors
Start out sweating, end up sneezing
In between it pours!
chorus
Still, it's a fine life
Carryin' the banner with me chums
Still, it's a fine life
Carryin' the banner with me chums
A bunch of big shots
Tossin' out a freebie to the bums
A bunch of big shots
Tossin' out a freebie
verse
Hey! What's the hold up?
Waitin' makes me antsy
I likes living chancey
Harlem to Delancey
What a fine life
Carryin' the banner through the-
verse
Blessed children
Though you wander lost and depraved
Jesus loves you
You shall be saved!
verse
Curdled (just give me half a cup)
Coffee (something to wake me up)
Concrete donuts (I gotta find an angle)
Sprinkled with mold (it's gettin' bad out there)
verse
Homemade (papers is all I got, it's 88 degrees)
Biscuits (Jack says to change my spot)
(Wish I could catch a breeze)
Just two (maybe it's worth a shot)
Years old (all I can catch is fleas)
verse
If I hate the headline
I'll make up a 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
verse
Got a feelin' bout the headline
I smells me a headline
Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' 'em away
Betcha dinner it's a doozy
'Bout a pistol-packing floozey
Who knows how to make a newsie's day
verse
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!
verse
Uptown to Grand Central Station
Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walking till we fall
chorus
But we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
We're always out there
Soakin' every sucker that we can!
See the headline:
Newsies on a mission!
chorus
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
See us out there, carryin' the banner
Always out there, carryin' the banner
chorus
We'll all be out there
Carryin' the banner man to man
We're always out there
Soakin' every sucker that we can
Here's the headline:
Newsies on a mission
chorus
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
See us out there, carryin' the banner
Always out there, carryin' the banner
outro
Ah, ah, ah, go!
Writer(s): Jack A. Feldman, Alan Menken, J. A. C. Redford
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Album • 2012 • 17 tracks
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Carrying the Banner
Newsies - Original Broadway Cast
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