Carrying The Banner Lyrics - Singles - Newsies

RACE: 

Hey! That's my cigar! 

ALBERT: 

You'll steal anudder. 

SPECS: 

Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo! 

HENRY: 

I thought that I'd surprise my mother. 

ALBERT: 

If you can find her. 

NEWSIES: 

Who asked you?! 

RACE: 

From Bottle Alley to the harbor 

There's easy pickin's guaranteed 

Try any banker, bum, or barber 

They almost all knows how to read! 

JACK: 

It's a crooked game we're playing, 

One we'll never lose. 

Long as suckers don't mind paying, 

Just to get bad news! 

NEWSIES: 

Aint it a fine life 

Carrying the banner through it all 

A mighty fine life, 

Carrying 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, 

Carrying the banner home-free all! 

FINCH: 

(Spoken) 

Hey, Crutchie! What's your leg say? 

Gonna rain? 

CRUTCHIE: 

Uhh, no rain. 

Oh-ho! Partly cloudy, clear by evening! 

RACE: 

Ha! 

And the limp sells fifty papes a week, 

all by itself! 

CRUTCHIE: 

Ah, I don't need the limp to sell papes. 

I got poisonality! 

(Sung) 

It takes a smile that spreads like butter, 

The kind that turns a lady's head. 

RACE: 

It takes an orphan with a stutter, 

FINCH: 

Who's also blind- 

ALBERT: 

And mute- 

ELMER: 

And dead! 

CRUTCHIE, BUTTONS, JO-JO: 

Summer stinks and winters freezing 

When you works outdoors 

JACK, TOMMY BOY, CRUTCHIE, BUTTONS, JO-JO: 

Start out sweatin, 

End up sneezin' 

In between it pours! 

NEWSIES: 

Still it's a fine life, 

Carrying the banner with me chums, 

A bunch of big shots, 

Tossin' out a freebie to the bums. 

FINCH: 

Hey, what's the hold up, 

Sitting makes me antsy 

I likes livin' chancey 

NEWSIES: 

Harlem to Delancey, 

What a fine life 

Carrying the banner through the... 

NUNS: 

Blessed children, 

Though you wander lost and depraved, 

Jesus loves you, 

You shall be saved 

(Next two verses simultaneously) 

RACE: 

Curdled coffee, 

Concrete donuts sprinkled with mold 

Homemade biscuits 

Just two years old 

ELMER: Just gimme half a cup. 

HENRY: Something to wake me up. 

ROMEO: I gotta find an angle 

TOMMY BOY: It's gettin' bad out there. 

MUSH: Papers is all I got. 

SPECS: It's eighty-eight degrees. 

JO-JO: Jack says to change my spot. 

SNIPER: Wish I could catch a breeze 

FINCH: Maybe it's worth a shot. 

BUTTONS: All I can catch is fleas. 

JACK: 

If I hate a headline 

I'll make up the headline 

JACK AND CRUTCHIE: 

And I'll say anything I have'ta 

'Cause at two for a penny 

JACK, CRUTCHIE, RACE, AND ROMEO: 

If I take too many 

Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta'! 

(Next two verses simultaneously) 

NEWSIES GROUP 1: 

Got a feelin' bout the headline! 

I smells me a headline! 

Papes are gonna sell 

Like we was givin' them away! 

Bet'ya dinner it's a doozy 

'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy, 

Who knows how to make a Newsie's day! 

NEWSIES GROUP 2: 

I do, too! 

So it must be true! 

What a switch! 

Soon we'll all be rich! 

Don't know any better way to 

Make a Newsie's day! 

NEWSIES TOGETHER: 

You wanna move the new edition?! 

Give us an earthquake or a war! 

ELMER: 

How 'bout a crooked politician? 

NEWSIES: 

Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more! 

Uptown to Grand Central Station 

Down to City Hall 

We improves our circulation 

Walkin' till we fall 

(The next two are sung together ) 

NEWSIES GROUP 1: 

But we'll be out there 

Carrying the banner man to man! 

We're always out there, 

Soakin' every sucker that we can! 

Here's the headline: 

Newsies on a mission! 

Kill the competition! 

Sell the next edition! 

We'll be out there 

Carrying the banner! 

See us out there, 

Carrying the banner! 

Always out there, 

Carrying the banner! 

NEWSIES GROUP 2: 

Got a feelin' bout the headline! 

I smells me a headline! 

Papes are gonna sell 

Like we was givin' them away! 

Bet'ya dinner it's a doozy 

'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy, 

Don't know any better way 

To make a Newsie's day! 

I was stakin' out the circus, 

And then someone said 

That Coney's really hot 

But when I got there 

There was Spot, 

With all his cronies, 

Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got 

And play with the ponies! 

We at least deserves a headline 

For the hours that they work us 

Jeez, I bet if I just stayed 

A little longer at the circus... 

NEWSIES: 

But we'll be out there 

Carrying the banner man to man! 

We're always out there, 

Soakin' every sucker that we can! 

Here's the headline: 

Newsies on a mission! 

Kill the competition! 

Sell the next edition! 

We'll be out there 

Carrying the banner! 

See us out there, 

Carrying the banner! 

Always out there, 

Carrying the banner! 

Ahh, ahh, ahh, go!