Carrying the Banner - Jeremy Jordan, Newsies Original Broadway Cast

Hey!

That’s my cigar!

You’ll steal another!

Hey, look!

It’s bath time at the zoo

I thought that I’d surprise my mother

If you can find her

WHO ASKED YOU?!

From Bottle Alley to the Harbor

There’s easy pickings guaranteed

Try any banker, bum, or barber

They almost all knows how to read

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

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!

Hey, Crutchie, what’s your leg say, gonna rain?

Uhh, no rain…

Ho-ho, partly cloudy clear by evenin'

Ha!

And the limp sells fifty papes a week, all by itself!

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

It takes an orphan with a stutter

Who’s also blind-

And mute-

And dead!

Summer stinks and winters freezing

When you works outdoors

Start out sweatin

End up sneezin'

In between it pours!

Still it’s a fine life

Carrying the banner with me chums

A bunch of big shots

Tossin' out a freebie to the bums

Hey!

What’s the hold up?

Waiting makes me antsy

I likes livin' chancey

Harlem to Delancey

What a fine life!

Carrying the banner through the-

Blessed children

Though you wander lost and depraved

Jesus loves you

You shall be saved

Curdled

Just give me half a cup

Blessed children

coffee

Somethin' to wake me up Concrete donuts

I gotta find an angle

Sprinkled with mold

It’s gettin bad out there

Homemade

Papers is all I got

Jesus loves you

It’s 88 degrees

biscuits

JACK says to change my spot

Wish I could catch a breeze

Just two

Maybe it’s worth a shot

All I can catch is fleas

years old

If I hate the headline

I’ll make up a headline

And I’ll say anything I have’ta

'Cause at two for a penny if I take too many

Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta'!

Got a feelin' bout the headline!

I smells me a headline!

I do too, so it must be true

Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away!

Betcha dinner it’s a doozy

What a switch!

Soon we’ll all be rich

'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy

Who knows how to make a Newsie’s day!

Don’t know any better way to make a newsie’s day

You wanna move the next edition

Give us an earthquake or a war!

How ‘bout a crooked politician?

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

But we’ll be out there

Got a feelin' 'bout the headline

Carrying the banner man to man!

I smells me a headline

Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away

We’re always out there

Betcha dinner it’s a doozy

Soakin' every sucker that we can!

'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy

Don’t know any better way to make a Newsie’s day!

See the headline:

I was stakin' out the circus,

Newsies on a mission!

And then someone said that Coney’s really hot

Kill the competition,

But when I got there,

Sell the next edition!

there was Spot with all his cronies,

We’ll be out there,

Heck, I’m gonna take what little dough I got and play with the ponies!

Carrying the banner!

See us out there,

We at least deserves a headline for the hours that they work us Carrying the banner!

Always out there,

Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus…

Carrying the banner!

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!