That's my cigar!
You'll steal anudder!
Hey, bummers, we got work ta do!
Since when did you become me mudder?
Ah, stop yer bawlin'!
Hey, who ast you?
Try Bottle Alley or the Harbor
Try Central Park, it's guaranteed
Try any banker, bum, or barber
They almost all knows how to read.
I smell money!
You smell foul!
Met this girl last night...
Ah, move yer elbow!
Pass the towel!
For a buck I might!
Ain't it a fine life
Carrying the banner through it all?
A mighty fine life
Carrying the banner tough and tall
Ev'ry mornin', 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!
It takes a smile as sweet as butter
The kind that ladies can't resist
It takes an orphan with a stutter
Who ain't afraid to use his Fist!
Summer stinks and winter's waitin'
Welcome to New York
Boy, ain't nature fascinatin'
When youse gotta walk?
Still it's a fine life
Carrying the banner with me chums
A mighty fine life
Blowin' ev'ry nickel as it comes
I'm no snoozer
Sittin' makes me antsy
I likes livin' chancey
Harlem to Delancey
What a fine life
Carrying the banner through the slums
We need a good assassination
We need an earthquake or a war
How 'bout a crooked policitican?
Hey, stupid, that ain't news no more!
Uptown to Grand Central Station
Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walkin' till we fall!
Still we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man
We'll be out there
Soakin' every sucker that we can
See the headlines
Newsies on a mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
While we're out there
Carrying the banner is the..
Look! They're puttin' up the headline!
They call that a headline?
The idiot what wrote it must be workin' for the Sun
Did ya hear about the fire?
Heard it killed Old Man McGuire
Heard the toll was even higher
Why do I miss all the fun?
Hitched it on a trolley
Meet ya Fourty-fourth and Second
Little Italy's a secret
Bleeker's further than I reckoned
By the courthouse, near the stables
On the corner someone beckoned and I...
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
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
What a fine life
Carrying the banner
Look! They're putting up the headline
You call that headline?
I get better stories from the copper on the beat
I was gonna start with twenty
Now a dozen'll be plenty
Tell me how I'm gonna make ends meet
Hitched it on a trolley
Meet ya Fourty-fourth and Second
Little Italy's a secret
Bleeker's further than I reckoned
By the courthouse, near the stables
On the corner someone beckoned and I...
It's a fine life
Carrying the banner
Go get 'em, Cowboy!
You got 'em now, boy!
Go!
Blessed children
Though you wander lost and depraved
Jesus loves you
You shall be saved
Patrick, darling
Since you left me
I am undone
Mother loves you
God save my son!
Just give me half a cup
Somethin' to wake me up
I gotta find an angle
I gotta sell more papes
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
If I hate the headline
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
Look! They're puttin' the headline
(What's it say? That won't play)
You call that a headline?
I get better stories from the copper on the beat
(So where's your spot? God, it's hot. Will ya tell me...)
I was gonna start with twenty
Now a dozen'll be plenty
How's a guy s'posed to make ends meet?