Carrying the Banner - Newsies-Original Broadway Cast
Racetrack: That's my cigar Snipeshooter: You'll steal another Kid Blink: Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo Specs: I thought that I'd suprise my mother Snipeshooter: If you could find her Several Newsies: Who asked you Mush: From Bottle Alley to the harbor Racetrack: There's easy pickings guaranteed Jack: Try any banker, bum, or barber... Skittery: They almost all knows how to read! Jack: It's a crooked game we're playin' One we'll never lose Long as suckers don't mind payin' Just to get bad news Newsies: Ain't it a fine life Carryin' the banner through it all A mighty fine life Carryin' 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 Carryin' the banner home-free all! (Spoken) Jack: Hey Crutchie, what your leg say, gonna rain? Crutchie: No rain... Ha, partly cloudy clear by evenin'! Jack: And the limp sells 50 papes all by itself! Crutchie: I don't need a limp to sell papes. I've got personality. (Sung) It takes a smile that spreads like butter The kind that turns a lady's head Racetrack: It takes an orphan with a stutter Jack: Who's also blind Mush: And mute Kid Blink: And dead! Newsies: Summer stinks and winter's freezing When you works outdoors Start out sweating end up sneezing In between it pours! Still, it's a fine life Carryin' the banner with me chums A bunch of big shots Tossin' out a freebie to the bums Race: Hey! What's the hold up Waitin' makes me antsy I likes living chancey Newsies: Harlem to Delancey What a fine life Carryin' the banner through the Three Nuns: Blessed children Though you wander lost and depraved Jesus loves you You shall be saved! SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT: Curdled (just give me half a cup) coffee (something to wake me up) Concrete donuts (I gotta find an angle) sprinkled with mold (it's gettin' bad out here) Homemade (papers is all I got) biscuits (it's 88 degrees) (Jack says to change my spot) (wish I could catch a breeze) Just two (maybe it's worth a shot) years old (all I can catch is fleas) Newsies: If I hate the headlines I'll make up a 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 SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT: Group one: Got a feelin' bout the headline I smells me a headline Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away Betcha dinner it's a doozy 'bout a pistol-packing floozey Who knows how to make a newsie's day Group two: I do too! So it must be true What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich 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 Snipeshooter: 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 till we fall SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT: Group one: But we'll be out there Carrying the banner man to man! We're always out there Soakin' every sucker that we can! See the headline: Newsies on a mission! Group two: Got a feelin' bout the headline I smells me a headline Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away Betcha dinner it's a doozy 'bout a pistol-packing floozey Don't know any better way to make a newsie's day Group one: Kill the competition Sell the next edition We'll be out there, carryin' the banner See us out there, carryin' the banner Always out there, carryin' the banner Group two: I was stakin' out the circus and then someone said that coney's really hot But when I got there, there was Spot with all his cronies Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play with the ponies We at least deserve a headline for the hours that they work us Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus We'll all be out there, carryin' the banner man to man We're always out there, soakin' evey sucker that we can Here's the headline: Newsies on a mission Kill the competition Sell the next edition We'll be out there, carryin' the banner See us out there, carryin' the banner Always out there, carryin' the banner Ah, ah, ah, go!
Artist: Newsies-Original Broadway Cast
Title: Carrying the Banner