Barber's Song

Racetrack:
That's my cigarSnipeshooter:
You'll steal anotherKid Blink:
Hey, look, it's bath time at the zooSpecs:
I thought that I'd suprise my motherSnipeshooter:
If you could find herSeveral Newsies:
Who asked youMush:
From Bottle Alley to the harborRacetrack:
There's easy pickings guaranteedJack:
Try any banker, bum, or barber...Skittery:
They almost all knows how to read!Jack:
It's a crooked game we're playin'
One we'll never lose
Long as suckers don't mind payin'
Just to get bad newsNewsies:
Ain't it a fine life
Carryin' the banner through it all
A mighty fine life
Carryin' the banner tough and tall
When the bell rings
We goes where we wishes
We's as free as fishes
Sure beats washing dishes
What a fine life
Carryin' the banner home-free all!(Spoken)
Jack:
Hey Crutchie, what your leg say, gonna rain?Crutchie:
No rain... Ha, partly cloudy clear by evenin'!Jack:
And the limp sells 50 papes all by itself!Crutchie:
I don't need a limp to sell papes. I've got personality.(Sung)
It takes a smile that spreads like butter
The kind that turns a lady's headRacetrack:
It takes an orphan with a stutterJack:
Who's also blindMush:
And muteKid Blink:
And dead!Newsies:
Summer stinks and winter's freezing
When you works outdoors
Start out sweating end up sneezing
In between it pours!
Still, it's a fine life
Carryin' the banner with me chums
A bunch of big shots
Tossin' out a freebie to the bumsRace:
Hey! What's the hold up
Waitin' makes me antsy
I likes living chanceyNewsies:
Harlem to Delancey
What a fine life
Carryin' the banner through theThree Nuns:
Blessed children
Though you wander lost and depraved
Jesus loves you
You shall be saved!SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:Curdled (just give me half a cup) coffee (something to wake me up)
Concrete donuts (I gotta find an angle) sprinkled with mold (it's gettin' bad out here)
Homemade (papers is all I got) biscuits (it's 88 degrees) (Jack says to change my spot) (wish I could catch a breeze)
Just two (maybe it's worth a shot) years old (all I can catch is fleas)Newsies:
If I hate the headlines
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 aftaSUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:Group one:
Got a feelin' bout the headline
I smells me a headline
Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away
Betcha dinner it's a doozy
'bout a pistol-packing floozey
Who knows how to make a newsie's dayGroup two:
I do too! So it must be true
What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich
Don't know a better way to make a newsie's dayNewsies:
You wanna move the next edition
Give us an earthquake or a warSnipeshooter:
How 'bout a crooked politicianNewsies:
Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more
Uptown to Grand Central Station
Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walking till we fallSUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:Group one:
But we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
We're always out there
Soakin' every sucker that we can!
See the headline:
Newsies on a mission!Group two:
Got a feelin' bout the headline
I smells me a headline
Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away
Betcha dinner it's a doozy
'bout a pistol-packing floozey
Don't know any better way to make a newsie's dayGroup one:
Here's the headline
Newsies on a mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
See us out there, carryin' the banner
Always out there, carryin' the bannerGroup two:
I was stakin' out the circus and then someone said that coney's really hot
But when I got there, there was Spot with all his cronies
Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play with the ponies
We at least deserve a headline for the hours that they work us
Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circusWe'll all be out there, carryin' the banner man to man
We're always out there, soakin' evey sucker that we can
Here's the headline:
Newsies on a mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
See us out there, carryin' the banner
Always out there, carryin' the banner
Ah, ah, ah, go!