Carrying the Banner

Carrying the Banner is the second song in Newsies. It is performed by the Original Broadway Cast of Newsies as the newsies and nuns. During it, the newsies prepare for another day of delivering papers, expecting it to be ordinary.

Lyrics
[RACE] Hey! That's my cigar!

[ALBERT] You'll steal another!

[SPECS] Hey, look! It's bath time at the zoo

[HENRY] I thought that I'd surprise my mother

[ALBERT] If you can find her

[NEWSIES] WHO ASKED YOU?! [RACE] From Bottle Alley to the Harbor There's easy pickings

guaranteed

[FINCH] Try any banker, bum, or barber 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 news

[NEWSIES] Ain't it a fine life! Carrying the banner through it all A mighty fine life! Carrying 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 Carrying the banner home-free all!

[FINCH] Hey, Crutchie, what's your leg say, gonna rain?

[CRUTCHIE] Uhh, no rain... Ho-ho, partly cloudy clear by evenin'

[RACE] Ha! And the limp sells fifty papes a week, all by itself!

[CRUTCHIE] I don't need the limp to sell papes I got personality It takes a smile that spreads like butter The kind that turns a lady's head

[RACE] It takes an orphan with a stutter

[FINCH] Who's also blind-

[ALBERT] And mute-

[ELMER] And dead!

[CRUTCHIE, BUTTONS, JO-JO] Summer stinks and winters freezing When you works outdoors

[JACK, TOMMY BOY, CRUTCHIE, BUTTONS, JO-JO] Start out sweatin End up sneezin' In between it pours!

[NEWSIES] Still it's a fine life Carrying the banner with me chums A bunch of big shots Tossin' out a freebie to the bums

[FINCH] Hey! What's the hold up? Waiting makes me antsy I likes livin' chancey

[NEWSIES] Harlem to Delancey What a fine life! Carrying the banner through the-

[NUNS] Blessed children Though you wander lost and depraved Jesus loves you You shall be saved [JACK] If I hate the headline I’ll make up a headline

[JACK AND CRUTCHIE] And I'll say anything I have'ta

[JACK, CRUTCHIE, RACE, AND ROMEO] 'Cause at two for a penny if I take too many Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta'! [NEWSIES] You wanna move the next edition Give us an earthquake or a war!

[ELMER] How ‘bout a crooked politician?

[NEWSIES] Yeah, nitwit, that ain’t news no more! Uptown to Grand Central Station Down to City Hall We improves our circulation Walking ‘til we fall [NEWSIES] We’ll all be out there Carrying the banner man to man! We're always out there Soakin' every sucker that we can! Here's the headline: Newsies on a mission! Kill the competition! Sell the next edition! We'll be out there Carrying the banner! See us out there Carrying the banner! Always out there Carrying the banner! Ahh, ahh, ahh, go!

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