Carrying The Banner Tekst
Carrying The Banner Tekst
Carrying The Banner Tekst
That's my cigar - You'll steal anudder Got a feelin' 'bout the headline
Hey, look, it's bath :me at the zoo I smells me a headline
I thought that I'd surprise my mother Papes are gonna sell like we was givin’ ‘em away
If you can find her - Who asked you? Betcha dinner it's a doozy
'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy
From Bo@le Alley to the Harbor Who knows how to make a Newsie's day
There's easy pickings guaranteed
Try any banker, bum, or barber You wanna move the next edi:on
They almost all knows how to read Give us an earthquake or a war
How 'bout a crooked poli:cian?
It's a crooked game we're playin' Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more
One we'll never lose Uptown to Grand Central Sta:on, down to City
Long as suckers don't mind payin' Hall
Just to get bad news We improves our circula:on, walking ':l we fall!
But we'll be out there
Ain't it a fine life Carrying the banner man to man
Carrying the banner through it all! We're always out there
A mighty fine life Soakin' every sucker that we can
Carrying the banner tough and tall Here's the headline: Newsies on a mission!
When that bell rings, we goes where we wishes Kill the compe::on!
We's as free as fishes Sell the next edi:on!
Sure beats washing dishes We'll be out there, carrying the banner!
What a fine life, carrying the banner home-free all See us out there, carrying the banner!
Always out there, carrying the banner!
It takes a smile that spreads like bu@er Ah, ah, ah, go!
The kind that turns a lady's head
It takes an orphan with a stu@er
Who's also blind… And mute… And dead!