Newsies movie - Carrying the Banner lyrics
rate me<br>
Racetrack:<br>
That's my cigar <br>
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Snipeshooter:<br>
You'll steal anudder <br>
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Kid Blink:<br>
Hey, bummers, we got work to do <br>
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Specs:<br>
Since when did you become me mudder? <br>
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Crutchy:<br>
Ah, stop yer bawling! <br>
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Several Newsies:<br>
Hey! Who ast you?? <br>
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Mush:<br>
Try Bottle Alley or the harbor <br>
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Racetrack:<br>
Try Central Park, it's guaranteed <br>
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Jack:<br>
Try any banker, bum, or barber ... <br>
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Skittery:<br>
They almost all knows how to read! <br>
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Kid Blink:<br>
I smell money <br>
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Crutchy:<br>
You smell foul! <br>
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Mush:<br>
Met this girl last night ... <br>
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Crutchy:<br>
Move your elbow! <br>
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Racetrack:<br>
Pass the towel! <br>
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Skittery:<br>
For a buck, I might! <br>
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Newsies:<br>
Ain't it a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner through it all?<br>
A mighty fine life<br>
Carrying the banner tough and tall<br>
Every morning<br>
We goes where we wishes<br>
We's as free as fishes<br>
Sure beats washing dishes<br>
What a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner home-free all! <br>
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Jack:<br>
It takes a smile as sweet as butter <br>
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Crutchy:<br>
The kind that ladies can't resist <br>
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Racetrack:<br>
It takes an orphan with a stutter <br>
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Jack:<br>
Who ain't afraid ta use his <br>
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Kid Blink:<br>
Fist! <br>
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Newsies:<br>
Summer stinks and winter's waiting<br>
Welcome to New Yawk!<br>
Boy, ain't nature fascinating<br>
When youse gotta walk?<br>
Still, it's a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner with me chums!<br>
A mighty fine life<br>
Blowing every nickel as it comes <br>
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Crutchy:<br>
I'm no snoozer<br>
Sitting makes me antsy<br>
I likes living chancy <br>
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Newsies:<br>
Harlem tah Delancey<br>
What a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner through the slums <br>
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Three Nuns:<br>
Blessed children<br>
Though you wander lost and depraved<br>
Jesus loves you<br>
You shall be saved! <br>
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SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT: <br>
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Mother:<br>
Patrick, darling,<br>
Since you left me I am undone<br>
Mother loves you!<br>
God, save my son! <br>
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Racetrack:<br>
Just gimme half a cup <br>
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Kid Blink:<br>
Something ta wake me up <br>
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Mush:<br>
I gotta find an angle <br>
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Crutchy:<br>
I gotta sell more papes <br>
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Various Newsies:<br>
Papers is all I got<br>
Wish I could catch a breeze<br>
Sure hope the headline's hot<br>
All I can catch is fleas<br>
God, help me if it's not!<br>
Somebody help me, please ... <br>
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Newsies:<br>
If I hate the headlines<br>
I'll make up the headline<br>
And I'll say anything I hafta<br>
'Cause at two for a penny<br>
If I take too many<br>
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta <br>
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SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT: <br>
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Group one:<br>
Look! They're puttin' up the headline<br>
You call that a headline?<br>
I get better stories<br>
From the copper on the beat!<br>
I was gonna start at twenty<br>
Now a dozen'll be plenty<br>
Tell me, how'm I gonna make ends meet? <br>
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Group two:<br>
What's it say?<br>
That won't pay!<br>
So where's your spot?<br>
God, it's hot!<br>
Will ya tell me<br>
How'm I gonna make ends meet? <br>
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Newsies:<br>
We need a good assassination!<br>
We need an earthquake or a war! <br>
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Snipeshooter:<br>
How 'bout a crooked politician? <br>
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Newsies:<br>
Hey, stupid, that ain't news no more!<br>
Uptown to Grand Central Station<br>
Down to City Hall<br>
We improves our circulation<br>
Walking till we fall <br>
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SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT: <br>
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Group one:<br>
Still we'll be out there<br>
Carrying the banner man to man!<br>
We'll be out there<br>
Soakin' every sucker that we can!<br>
See the headline:<br>
Newsies on a mission! <br>
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Group one:<br>
Kill the competition<br>
Sell the next edition<br>
While we're out there<br>
Carrying the banner is the – <br>
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Group two:<br>
Look, they're puttin' up the headline<br>
They call that a headline?<br>
The idiot who wrote it<br>
Must be workin' for the Sun!<br>
Did ya hear about the fire? <br>
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Group three:<br>
Heard it killed old man Maguire! <br>
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Group two:<br>
Heard the toll was even higher <br>
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Group three:<br>
Why do I miss all the fun? <br>
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Group two:<br>
Hitched it on a trolley <br>
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Group three:<br>
Meet 'cha Forty-fourth and Second <br>
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Group two:<br>
Little Italy's a secret <br>
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Group three:<br>
Bleecker's further than I reckoned <br>
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Group two:<br>
By the courthouse <br>
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Group three:<br>
Near the stables <br>
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Group two:<br>
On the corner someone beckoned and I – <br>
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Group one:<br>
It's a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner through it all?<br>
A mighty fine life<br>
Carrying the banner tough and tall<br>
See the headline<br>
Newsies on a mission<br>
Kill the competition<br>
Sell the next edition<br>
What a fine life,<br>
Carrying the banner<br>
It's a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner<br>
It's a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner<br>
It's a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner<br>
It's a fine life<br>
Carrying the banner<br>
It's a<br>
Go! <br>
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Group two:<br>
Would you look at that headline?<br>
You call that a headline?<br>
I get better stories<br>
From the copper on the beat!<br>
I was gonna start with twenty<br>
Now a dozen'll be plenty<br>
Would you tell me how'm I ever<br>
Gonna make ends meet?<br>
Hitched it on a trolley<br>
Meetcha Forty-fourth and Second<br>
Little Italy's a secret<br>
Bleecker's further than I reckoned<br>
By the courthouse<br>
Near the stables<br>
On the corner someone beckoned!<br>
Go get 'em Cowboy<br>
You got 'em now, boy!<br>
Go get 'em, Cowboy!<br>
You got 'em now, boy!<br>
Go!<br>
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