[Various Newsies]
Bb7
That's my cigar
G/A D
You'll steal another
Bb7 G/A D
Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo
F7 D7 G
I thought that I'd suprise my mother
Bb7 G/A
If you could find her
D Bb7 A
Who asked you
G/A D/A
From Bottle Alley to the harbor
G/A D/A
There's easy pickings guaranteed
D7/A D7 G
Try any banker, bum, or barber...
G/A D
They almost all knows how to read!
[Jack]
G A/G G A/G
It's a crooked game we're playin'
G A/G G
One we'll never lose
Bb C/Bb Bb C/Bb
Long as suckers don't mind payin'
Bb C/Bb Asus
Just to get bad news
[Newsies]
D D/F#
Ain't it a fine life
G G/A D D/F# G G/A
Carryin' the banner through it all
D D/F#
A mighty fine life
G G/A F#m7 Bm7
Carryin' the banner tough and tall
Em7 D/F#
When the bell rings
G/A A7
We goes where we wishes
F#m7
We's as free as fishes
B7sus B7
Sure beats washing dishes
Em7 D/F# G E7/G#
What a fine... life
A7sus D
Carryin' the banner home-free all!
[Jack(Spoken)]
D
Hey Crutchie, what your leg say, gonna rain?
[Crutchie(Spoken)]
A7sus
No rain... Ha, partly cloudy clear by evenin'!
[Jack:(Spoken)]
A7sus
And the limp sells 50 papes all by itself!
[Crutchie]
A7
I don't need a limp to sell papes. I've got personality.
G7 G/A D
It takes a smile that spreads like butter
G7 G/A D
The kind that turns a lady's head
[Racetrack]
D/F# D7 D7/F# G
It takes an orphan with a stutter
[Jack]
Bb7
Who's also blind
[Mush]
G/A
And mute
[Kid Blink]
D
And dead!
[Newsies]
G A/G G A/G
Summer stinks and winter's freezing
G A/G G
When you works outdoors
Bb C/Bb Bb C/Bb
Start out sweating end up sneezing
Bb C/Bb A5
In between it pours!
D D/F#
Still, it's a fine life
G G/A D D/F# G Asus
Carryin' the banner with me chums
D D/F#
A bunch of big shots
G G/A F#m7 Bm7
Tossin' out a freebie to the bums
[Race]
Em7
Hey! What's the hold up
A7sus
Waitin' makes me antsy
F#m
I likes living chancey
[Newsies]
B7sus B7
Harlem to Delancey
Em7
What a fine life
A7sus
Carryin' the banner through the
[Nuns]
Dsus D Bsus Bm
Blessed children
Dsus D A/B Bm
Though you wander lost and depraved
G(add4) G(add2) Esus Em
Jesus..... loves you
A7sus A7 Dsus D
You shall be saved!
[Race] (In counterpoint to Nuns and other Newsies)
Dsus D Bsus Bm
Curdled coffee
Dsus D A/B Bm
Concrete donuts sprinkled with mold
G(add4) G(add2) Esus Em
Homemade... biscuits
A7sus A7 D5
Just two years old
[Jack]
D5
If I hate the headlines
D5
I'll make up a headline
[Add Crutchie]
Bb7
And I'll say anything I hafta
[Add Newsies]
D5
'Cause at two for a penny
If I take too many
Bb7
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta
[Group one] [Group two]
E5
Got a feelin' bout the headline I do too!
C7
I smells me a headline So it must be true
Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' em' away What a switch!
E5
Betcha dinner it's a doozy Soon we'll all be rich
'bout a pistol-packing floozey
C7
Who know how... Don't know a better way...
[Both Groups]
B7sus
...to make a newsie's day!
[Newsies]
A7 A/B E E/G#
You wanna move the next edition
C7 A/B E
Give us an earthquake or a war
[Snipeshooter]
G7 E7 A
How 'bout a crooked politician
[Newsies]
C9 A/B E
Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more
A B/A A B/A
Uptown to Grand Central Station
A B/A A
Down to City Hall
C D/C C D/C
We improves our circulation
C D/C B7sus
Walking till we fall
[Group one] [Group two]
E5 E/G#
But we'll be out there Got a feelin' bout the headline, I smells me a headline
A B E5 E/G# A B
Carrying the banner man to man! Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away
E5 E/G#
We're always out there Betcha dinner it's a doozy, 'bout a pistol-packing floozey
A B G#m7 C#m7
Soakin' every sucker that we can! Don't know any better way to make a newsie's day
F#m7
Here's the headline: I was stakin' out the circus
B7sus
Newsies on a mission! And then someone said that coney's really hot
G#m7
Kill the competition But when I get there
C#7sus C#7
Sell the next edition There was Spot with all his cronies
F#m7
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play the ponies
G#m7 C#m7
See us out there, carryin' the banner We at least deserve a headline for the hours that they work us
F#m7 A A#dim B7sus B
See us out there, carryin' the banner Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus
[Newsies]
C F F/A Bb C F F/A Bb C
We'll all be out there, carryin' the banner man to man
F F/A Bb C Am7 Dm7
We're always out there, soakin' evey sucker that we can
Gm7 Bbsus
Here's the head...line:
C7sus
Newsies on a mission
Am7
Kill the competition
D7sus D7
Sell the next edition
Gm7 C7sus
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
Gm7 C7sus
See us out there, carryin' the banner
Gm7 C7sus
Always out there, carryin' the banner
F
Ah, ah, ah, go!
