Carrying The Banner - Company.mp3

[00:00.14]Hey!
[00:01.01]That's my cigar!
[00:02.17]You'll steal another!
[00:04.12]Hey, look! It's bath time at the zoo
[00:07.18]I thought that I'd surprise my mother
[00:10.40]If you can find her
[00:12.17]WHO ASKED YOU?!
[00:19.23]From Bottle Alley to the Harbor
[00:22.31]There's easy pickings guaranteed
[00:25.66]Try any banker, bum, or barber
[00:28.89]They almost all knows how to read
[00:32.65]It's a crooked game we're playin'
[00:35.81]One we'll never lose
[00:39.07]Long as suckers don't mind payin'
[00:42.34]Just to get bad news
[00:46.67]Ain't it a fine life!
[00:48.63]Carrying the banner through it all
[00:53.06]A mighty fine life!
[00:55.03]Carrying the banner tough and tall
[00:59.55]When the bell rings
[01:01.55]We goes where we wishes
[01:03.22]We's as free as fishes
[01:04.70]Sure beats washing dishes
[01:06.16]What a fine life
[01:08.00]Carrying the banner home-free all!
[01:12.00]Hey, Crutchie, what's your leg say, gonna rain?
[01:14.09]Uhh, no rain...
[01:16.00]Ho-ho, partly cloudy, clear by evenin'
[01:18.31]Ha! And the limp sells fifty papes a week, all by itself!
[01:21.40]I don't need the limp to sell papes
[01:23.50]I got personality
[01:25.50]It takes a smile that spreads like butter
[01:28.60]The kind that turns a lady's head
[01:32.29]It takes an orphan with a stutter
[01:35.48]Who's also blind-
[01:36.62]And mute-
[01:37.40]And dead!
[01:39.30]Summer stinks and winters freezing
[01:42.51]When you works outdoors
[01:45.57]Start out sweatin
[01:47.10]End up sneezin'
[01:48.93]In between it pours!
[01:53.26]Still it's a fine life
[01:55.27]Carrying the banner with me chums
[01:56.79]Still it's a fine life
[01:58.53]Carrying the banner with me chums
[01:59.77]A bunch of big shots
[02:01.80]Tossin' out a freebie to the bums
[02:03.10]A bunch of big shots
[02:05.00]Tossin' out a freebie
[02:06.31]Hey! What's the hold up?
[02:08.15]Waiting makes me antsy
[02:09.74]I likes livin' chancey
[02:11.27]Harlem to Delancey
[02:12.77]What a fine life!
[02:14.61]Carrying the banner through the-
[02:16.48]Blessed children
[02:22.86]Though you wander lost and depraved
[02:29.39]Jesus loves you
[02:35.68]You shall be saved
[02:42.21]Curdled
[02:43.73]( Just give me half a cup)
[02:45.53]coffee
[02:47.49]( Somethin' to wake me up)
[02:48.80]Concrete donuts
[02:50.98]( I gotta find an angle)
[02:52.29]Sprinkled with mold
[02:54.17]( It's gettin bad out there)
[02:55.55]Homemade ( Papers is all I got)
[02:57.76]( It's 88 degrees)
[02:58.76]biscuits ( JACK says to change my spot)
[03:00.53]( Wish I could catch a breeze)
[03:01.95]Just two ( Maybe it's worth a shot)
[03:03.51]( All I can catch is fleas)
[03:04.47]years old
[03:05.43]If I hate the headline
[03:06.64]I'll make up a headline
[03:08.02]And I'll say anything I have'ta
[03:11.29]'Cause at two for a penny， if I take too many
[03:14.42]Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta'!
[03:17.65]Got a feelin' bout the headline!
[03:19.59]I smells me a headline! ( I do too, so it must be true)
[03:21.25]Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away!
[03:24.11]Betcha dinner it's a doozy ( What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich)
[03:25.92]'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy
[03:27.38]Who knows how to make a Newsie's day! ( Don't know any better way to make a newsie's day)
[03:30.49]You wanna move the next edition
[03:33.74]Give us an earthquake or a war!
[03:36.86]How 'bout a crooked politician?
[03:40.00]Yeah, nitwit, that ain't news no more!
[03:43.53]Uptown to Grand Central Station
[03:46.68]Down to City Hall
[03:49.85]We improves our circulation
[03:53.11]Walking 'til we fall
[03:57.26]But we'll be out there ( Got a feelin' 'bout the headline)
[03:59.27]Carrying the banner man to man! ( I smells me a headline)
[04:01.33]( Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' them away)
[04:03.74]We're always out there (Betcha dinner it's a doozy)
[04:05.68]Soakin' every sucker that we can! ( 'Bout a pistol-packin' floozy)
[04:07.39]( Don't know any better way to make a Newsie's day! )
[04:10.10]See the headline: ( I was stakin' out the circus, )
[04:11.97]Newsies on a mission! ( And then someone said that Coney's really hot)
[04:13.50]Kill the competition, ( But when I got there,)
[04:15.00]Sell the next edition! ( there was Spot with all his cronies, )
[04:16.39]We'll be out there, ( Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play with ponies! )
[04:18.16]Carrying the banner!
[04:19.58]See us out there, ( We at least deserves a headline for the hours that they work us)
[04:21.34]Carrying the banner!
[04:22.61]Always out there, ( Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus... )
[04:24.53]Carrying the banner!
[04:28.86]We’ll all be out there
[04:30.76]Carrying the banner man to man!
[04:35.15]We're always out there
[04:37.05]Soakin' every sucker that we can!
[04:41.45]Here's the headline:
[04:43.38]Newsies on a mission!
[04:44.92]Kill the competition!
[04:46.34]Sell the next edition!
[04:47.69]We'll be out there
[04:49.64]Carrying the banner!
[04:51.02]See us out there
[04:52.69]Carrying the banner!
[04:54.10]Always out there
[04:55.99]Carrying the banner!
[04:57.72]Ahh, ahh, ahh, go!