Carrying the Banner

[RACETRACK]
That's my cigar

[SNIPESHOOTER]
You'll steal anudder

[KID BLINK]
Hey, bummers
We got work to do

[SPECS]
Since when did you become me mudder?

[CRUTCHY]
Ah, stop yer bawling!

[NEWSIES]
Hey! Who asked you?

[Instrumental]

[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 goyl 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 washin' 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 waitin'
Welcome to New Yawk!
Boy, ain't nature fascinating
When you's gotta walk?

Still, it's a fine life
Carrying the banner with me chums!
(Still it's a fine life)
(Carrying the banner with me chums!)
A mighty fine life
Blowing every nickel as it comes
(A mighty fine life)
(Blowing every nickel as it comes)

[CRUTCHY]
I'm no snoozer
Sittin' makes me antsy
I likes livin' chancy

[NEWSIES]
Harlem to 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

[PATRICK'S MOTHER]
Patrick

[RACETRACK]
Just gimme half a cup

[PATRICK'S MOTHER]
Darling

[KID BLINK]
Something ta wake me up

[PATRICK'S MOTHER]
Since you ​left me

[MUSH]
I gotta find an angle

[PATRICK'S MOTHER]
I am undone

[CRUTCHY]
I gotta sell more papes

[PATRICK'S MOTHER]
Mother ​loves you

[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

[PATRICK'S MOTHER]
God, save my son

[VARIOUS NEWSIES]
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

[NEWSIES GROUP 1, NEWSIES GROUP 2]
Look, they're puttin' up the
Headline! What's it say?
They call that a headline? That won't pay!
I get better stories
From the copper on the beat So, where's your spot?
I was gonna start at twenty God, it's hot!
Now a dozen'll be plenty Will ya tell me
Tell me, how'm I gonna How I'm gonna
Make ends meet? 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!

[NEWSIES GROUP 1, NEWSIES GROUP 2]
Still we'll be out there Didja hear about the headline!
Carrying the banner They call that a headline?
Man to man The idiot who wrote it
Must be working for the Sun
We'll be out there Didja hear about the fire?
Soaking every sucker Heard it killed old man Maguire
That we can Heard the toll was even higher
Why do I miss all the fun?
See the headline: Hitched it on a trolley
"Newsies on a mission!" Meetcha Fourty-fourth and Second
Kill the competition! Little Italy's a secret
Sell the next edition! Bleecker's further than I reckoned
We'll be out there By the courthouse near the stables
Carrying the banner! On the corner some beckoned
It's a- And I-

[MUSICAL BREAK]

[NEWSIES GROUP 1, NEWSIES GROUP 2, NEWSIES GROUP 3]
It's a fine life Look, they're puttin' up the headline!
Carrying the banner You call that a headline?
Through it all! I get better stories It's a fine life
From the copper on the beat Carrying the banner
A mighty fine life I was gonna start at twenty Through it all!
Carrying the banner Now a dozen'll be plenty
Tough and tall! Will tell me, how'm I ever A mighty fine life
Gonna make ends meet? Carrying the banner
See the headline: Hitched it on a trolley Tough and tall!
"Newsies on a mission!" Meetcha Fourty-fourth and Second "Newsies on a mission!"
Kill the competition! Little Italy's a secret Kill the competition!
Sell the next edition! Bleecker's further than I reckoned Sell the next edition!
We'll be out there By the courthouse near the stables We'll be out there
Carrying the banner! On the corner some beckoned Carrying the banner!

[NEWSIES GROUP 1, & 3, NEWSIES GROUP 2]
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 fine life
Carrying the banner!
It's a-

[NEWSIES]
Go!