Racetrack: That's my cigar



Snipeshooter: You'll steal anudder



Kid Blink: Hey, bummers, we got work to do



Specs: Since when did you become me mudder?



Crutchy: Ah, stop yer bawling!



Several Newsies: Hey! Who ast you??



Mush: Try Bottle Alley or the harbor



Racetrack: Try Central Park, it's guaranteed



Jack: Try any banker, bum, or barber ...



Skittery: They almost all knows how to read!



Kid Blink: I smell money



Crutchy: You smell foul!



Mush: Met this girl last night ...



Crutchy: Move your elbow!



Racetrack: Pass the towel!



Skittery: For a buck, I might!



Newsies: Ain't it a fine life

Carrying the banner through it all?

A mighty fine life

Carrying the banner tough and tall

Every morning

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!



**[cut out in movie, but is still on the soundtrack]**



**Jack: It takes a smile as sweet as butter



Crutchy: The kind that ladies can't resist



Racetrack: It takes an orphan with a stutter



Jack: Who ain't afraid ta use his



Kid Blink: Fist!**



Newsies: Summer stinks and winter's waiting

Welcome to New Yawk!

Boy, ain't nature fascinating

When youse gotta walk?

Still, it's a fine life

Carrying the banner with me chums!

A mighty fine life

Blowing every nickel as it comes



Crutchy: I'm no snoozer

Sitting makes me antsy

I likes living chancy



Newsies: Harlem tah Delancey

What a fine life

Carrying the banner through the slums



Three Nuns: Blessed children

Though you wander lost and depraved

Jesus loves you

You shall be saved!



[SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:]



Mother: Patrick, darling,

Since you left me I am undone

Mother loves you!

God, save my son!



Racetrack: Just gimme half a cup



Kid Blink: Something ta wake me up



Mush: I gotta find an angle



Crutchy: I gotta sell more papes



Various Newsies: 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 ...



Newsies: If I hate the headlines

I'll make up the 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: Look! They're puttin' up the headline

You call that a headline?

I get better stories

From the copper on the beat!

I was gonna start at twenty

Now a dozen'll be plenty

Tell me, how'm I gonna make ends meet?



Group two: What's it say?

That won't pay!

So where's your spot?

God, it's hot!

Will ya tell me

How'm I gonna make ends meet?



Newsies: We need a good assassination!

We need an earthquake or a war!



Snipeshooter: How 'bout a crooked politician?



Newsies: Hey, stupid, 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: 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 headline:

Newsies on a mission!



Group one: Kill the competition

Sell the next edition

While we're out there

Carrying the banner is the –



Group two: Look, they're puttin' up the headline

They call that a headline?

The idiot who wrote it

Must be workin' for the Sun!

Did ya hear about the fire?



Group three: Heard it killed old man Maguire!



Group two: Heard the toll was even higher



Group three: Why do I miss all the fun?



Group two: Hitched it on a trolley



Group three: Meet 'cha Forty-fourth and Second



Group two: Little Italy's a secret



Group three: Bleecker's further than I reckoned



Group two: By the courthouse



Group three: Near the stables



Group two: On the corner someone beckoned and I –



Group one: 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

It's a fine life

Carrying the banner

It's a fine life

Carrying the banner

It's a fine life

Carrying the banner

It's a fine life

Carrying the banner

It's a

Go!



Group two: Would you look at that headline?

You call that a headline?

I get better stories

From the copper on the beat!

I was gonna start with twenty

Now a dozen'll be plenty

Would you tell me how'm I ever

Gonna make ends meet?

Hitched it on a trolley

Meetcha Forty-fourth and Second

Little Italy's a secret

Bleecker's further than I reckoned

By the courthouse

Near the stables

On the corner someone beckoned!

Go get 'em Cowboy

You got 'em now, boy!

Go get 'em, Cowboy!

You got 'em now, boy!

Go!








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