Carrying the Banner

That's my cigar
 You'll steal another
 Hey bummers we got work to do
 Since when did you become me mother?
 Ah, stop your bawling
 Hey, who asked you?
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 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 your 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
 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
 It takes a smile as sweet as butter
 The kind that ladies can't resist
 It takes and orphan with a stutter
 Who ain't afraid to use his
 Fist
 Summer stinks and winter's waiting
 Welcome to New York
 Boy, ain't nature fascinating
 When you's gotta walk?
 Still it's a fine life
 Carrying the banner with your chums. (it's a fine life)
 I mighty fine life (carrying the banner with your chums)
 Blowing every nickle as it comes. (a mighty fine life)
 (Blowing every nickle as it comes)
 I'm no snoozer
 Sitting makes me antsy
 I likes living chancy
 Harlem to Delancy
 What a fine life, carrying the banner through the slums
 Blessed children
 Though you wander lost and depraved
 Jesus loves you
 You shall be saved
 Patrick, (just give me half a cup)
 Darling, (something to wake me up)
 Since you left me (I gotta find an angle)
 I am undone. (I gotta sell more papes)
 Mother (papers is all I got) (wish I could catch a breeze)
 Loves you. (sure hope the headlines hot) (all I can catch is fleas)
 God save my son! (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 have to
 'Cause it's two for a penny
 If I take to many Weasel just makes me eat 'em after
 Look they putting up a headline
 What's it say? (you call that a headline)
 That won't pay! (I get better stories)
 So where's your spot? (from the copper on the beat)
 God, it's hot! (I was gonna start with twenty)
 Will ya tell me (but a dozen will be plenty)
 (Tell me) How'm I gonna make ends meat?
 We need a good assassination
 We need an earthquake or a war
 How 'bout a crooked politician?
 Hey stupid, that ain't news no more
 Uptown to Grand Central Station
 Down to City Hall
 We improves our circulation
 Walking 'til we fall
 Still we'll be out there
 (Look they're putting up the headline, they call that a headline)
 Carrying the banner man to man
 (The idiot who wrote it must be working for the sun)
 We'll be out there
 (Did you hear about the fire) (heard it killed old man Maguire)
 Soakin' all the suckers that we can
 (Heard the toll was even higher) (why do I miss all the fun)
 See the headline
 (Hitched it on the trolley)
 Newsies On A Mission.
 (Meet-ch'a forty-fourth and second)
 Kill the competition,
 (Little Italy's a secret)
 Sell the next edition.
 (Bleecker's further than I reckoned)
 While we're out there
 (By the courthouse) (near the stables)
 Carrying the banner is the-
 (On the corner someone beckoned and I-)
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 It's a fine life
 (Would you look at that headline)
 Carrying the banner through it all!
 (You call that a headline) (I get better stories)
 A mighty fine life
 (From the copper on the beat)
 Carrying the banner tough and tall!
 (I was gonna start with twenty)
 See the headline:
 (Now a dozen will be plenty)
 Newsies On A Mission
 (Would ya tell me how'm I ever gonna make ends meat)
 Kill the competition,
 (Hitched it on a trolley, meet-ch'a forty-fourth and second)
 Sell the next edition.
 (Little Italy's a secret, Bleecker's further than I reckoned)
 What a fine life
 (By the courthouse, near the stables)
 Carrying the banner!
 (On the corner someone beckoned)
 It's a fine life (go get 'em cowboy)
 Carrying the banner
 It's fine life (you got 'em cowboy)
 Carrying the banner
 It's a fine life (go get 'em cowboy)
 Carrying the banner
 It's a fine life (you got 'em cowboy)
 Carrying the banner
 It's a go!