Once and For All

Denton: This is the story you wanted to write, well tonight is the night that you can
Jack: Just get this done and by dawn's early light you can finish the fight you began
David: This time we're in it to stay
Sarah: Think about seizing the day
Jack: Think of that train as she rolls into old Santa Fe
Tell 'em I'm on my way
Newsies: See Old Man Pulitzer snug in his bed, he don't care if we're dead or alive
Three satin pillows are under his head while we're begging for bread to survive
Joe if you're still counting sheep
Wake up and read 'em and weep
You got your thugs with their sticks and their slugs yeah but we got a promise to keep
Once and for all something tells me the tide'll be turning
Once and for all there's a fire inside me that won't stop burning
Now that the choices are clear
Now that tomorrow is here
Watch how the mighty will fall for once and for all
Newsies: This is for kids shining shoes in the street with no shoes on their feet every day
This is for guys sweating blood in the shops while their bosses and cops look away
This is to even the score
This ain't just newsies no more
This ain't just kids with some pie in the sky this is do it or die this is war!
Once and for all we'll be there to defend one another
Once and for all every kid is a friend every friend a brother
Five dozen fists in the sky
Five dozen reasons to try
We're going over the wall
Better to die than to crawl
Either we stand or we fall
For once
Once and for all

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