[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 ast 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]
Pa** 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 bu*ter
[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!
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
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 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?
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 a**a**ination!
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 Still we'll be out there
Carrying the banner
man to man!
We'll be out there
Soaking every s**er that we can!
See the headline:
Newsies on a mission!
k** the competition
Sell the next edition
While we're out there
Carrying the banner is the— 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?
Heard it k**ed old man Maguire!
Heard the toll was even higher
Why do I miss all the fun?
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 and I—
[musical interlude]
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
k** the competition
Sell the next edition
What a fine life
Carrying the banner!
It's a
fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a
fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a
fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a
fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a— 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
But a dozen will 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
Go get 'em, cowboy
You got 'em now, boy
Go!