Carrying The Banner Lyrics - Alan Menken

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 

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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 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! 

Go get 'em Cowboy ... 

You got 'em now, boy