Carrying the Banner Lyrics & Tabs by Newsies Ensemble
Carrying the Banner
guitar chords lyrics
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?
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.
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-)
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!
