Ephraim Sykes - Carrying the Banner lyrics

[RACE] Hey! That's my cigar! [ALBERT] You'll steal another! [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 pickings guaranteed [FINCH] Try any banker, bum, or barber They almost all knows how to read [JACK] It's a crooked game we're playin' One we'll never lose Long as s**ers don't mind payin' Just to get bad news [NEWSIES] Ain't 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] Hey, Crutchie, what's your leg say, gonna rain? [CRUTCHIE] Uhh, no rain... Ho-ho, partly cloudy clear by evenin' [RACE] Ha! And the limp sells fifty papes a week, all by itself! [CRUTCHIE] I don't need the limp to sell papes I got personality It takes a smile that spreads like bu*ter 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, bu*tONS, JO-JO] Summer stinks and winters freezing When you works outdoors [JACK, TOMMY BOY, CRUTCHIE, bu*tONS, 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? Waiting makes me antsy [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 [RACE] Curdled [ELMER] [NUNS] Just give me half a cup Blessed children coffee [HENRY] Somethin' to wake me up Concrete donuts [ROMEO] I gotta find an angle Sprinkled with mold [TOMMY BOY] It's gettin bad out there [MUSH] Homemade Papers is all I got [SPECS] Jesus loves you It's 88 degrees [JO-JO] biscuits JACK says to change my spot [SNIPER] Wish I could catch a breeze [FINCH] Just two Maybe it's worth a shot [bu*tONS] All I can catch is fleas years old [JACK] If I hate the headline I'll make up a headline [JACK AND CRUTCHIE] And I'll say anything I have'ta [JACK, CRUTCHIE, RACE, AND ROMEO] 'Cause at two for a penny if I take too many Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta'! [NEWSIES GROUP 1] [NEWSIES GROUP 2] Got a feelin' bout the headline! I smells me a headline! I do too, so it must be true Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away! Betcha dinner it's a doozy What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich 'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy Who knows how to make a Newsie's day! Don't know a better way to make a newsie's day [NEWSIES] You wanna move the next 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 Walking ‘til we fall [NEWSIES GROUP 1] [NEWSIES GROUP 2] But we'll be out there Got a feelin' 'bout the headline Carrying the banner man to man! I smells me a headline Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away We're always out there Betcha dinner it's a doozy Soakin' every s**er that we can! 'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy Don't know any better way to make a Newsie's day! See the headline: I was stakin' out the circus, Newsies on a mission! And then someone said that Coney's really hot k** the competition, But when I got there, Sell the next edition! there was Spot with all his cronies, We'll be out there, Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play with the ponies! Carrying the banner! See us out there, We at least deserves a headline for the hours that they work us Carrying the banner! Always out there, Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus... Carrying the banner! [NEWSIES] We'll all be out there Carrying the banner man to man! We're always out there Soakin' every s**er that we can! Here's the headline: Newsies on a mission! k** 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!