Alan Menken - Newsies Prologue lyrics

[RACETRACK, spoken] In 1899, the streets of New York echoed with the voices of newsies, peddlin' the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and other giants of the newspaper world. On every corner, you saw 'em carryin' the banner, bringin' you the news for a penny a pape. Poor orphans and runaways, the newsies were a ragged army, without a leader. Until one day, all that changed...