| Carrying the Banner |
That's my cigar! You'll steal anudder! Hey, bummers, we got work ta do! Since when did you become me mudder? Ah, stop your bawlin'! Hey, who ast you? Try Bottle Alley or the Harbor Try Central Park, it's guarenteed Try any banker, bum or barber They almost all knows how to read. I smell money! You smell foul! Met this girl last night... Ah, move yer elbow! Pass the towel! For a buck I might! Ain't it a fine life Carrying the banner through it all? A mighty fine life Carrying the banner tough and tall Ev'ry mornin', 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! It takes a smile as sweet as butter The kind that ladies can't resist It takes an orphan with a stutter Who ain't afraid to use his Fist! Summer stinks and winter's waitin' Welcome to New York Boy, ain't nature fascinatin' When you'se gotta walk? Still it's a fine life Carrying the banner with me chums A mighty fine life Blowin' ev'ry nickel as it comes I'm no snoozer Sittin' makes me antsy I likes livin' chancey Harlem to Delancey What a fine life Carrying the banner through the slums Blessed children Though you wander lost and depraved Jesus loves you You shall be saved Patrick, darling Since you left me I am undone Mother loves you God save my son! Just give me half a cup Somethin' to wake me up I gotta find an angle I gotta sell more papes 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 If I hate the headline I'll make up a headline And I'll say anything I hafta Cause it's two for a penny If I take too many Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta |
Look! They're puttin' up the headline (What's it say? That won't play) You call that a headline? I get better stories from the copper on the beat (So where's your spot? God, it's hot. Will ya tell me...) I was gonna start with twenty Now a dozen'll be plenty How's a guy s'posed to make ends meet? We need a good assassination We need an earthquake or a war How 'bout a crooked politician? Hey, stupid, that ain't news no more! Uptown to Grand Central Station Down to City Hall We improves our circulation Walkin' till we fall! Still we'll be out there Carrying the banner man to man We'll be out there Soakin' ev'ry sucker that we can See the headlines Newsies on a mission Kill the competition Sell the next edition While we're out there Carrying the banner is the... Look! They're puttin' up the headline! They call that a headline? The idiot what wrote it must be workin' for the Sun Did ya hear about the fire? Heard it killed Old Man McGuire Heard the toll was even higher Why do I miss all the fun? Hitched it on a trolley Meet ya at Fourty-fourth and Second Little Italy's a secret Bleeker's further than I reckoned By the courthouse, near the stables On the corner someone beckoned and I... 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 Look! They're puttin' up the 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 Tell me how I'm gonna make ends meet Hitched it on a trolley Meet ya at Fourty-fourth and Second Little Italy's a secret Bleeker's further than I reckoned By the courthouse, near the stables On the corner someone beckoned and I... It's a fine life Carrying the banner Go get 'em, Cowboy! You got 'em now, boy! GO! |