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Post by Paper.Prince on Apr 6, 2018 20:45:11 GMT -5
Over here you can find lyrics from the Broadway musical (and in order!). Just wanted to note, that I will not include the chorales or reprises. If you would like those, just let me know.
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Post by Paper.Prince on Apr 6, 2018 20:50:16 GMT -5
Sante Fe (Prologue)
[Jack] (spoken) Them streets down there, they sucked the life right outta my old man. Well, they ain't doin' that to me.
[Crutchie] (spoken) But everyone wants to come to New York.
[Jack] (spoken) You keep your small life in the big city. Give me a big life in a small town.
(sung) They say folks is dyin' to get here. Me, I'm dying to get away, to a little town out west that's spankin' new. And while I ain't never been there, I can see it clear as day. If you want, I bet'cha you could see it, too. Close your eyes... come with me where it's clean and green and pretty. And they went and made a city made outta clay. Why, the minute that you get there folks'll walk right up and say, "Welcome home, son, welcome home to Santa Fe!" Plantin' crops, splittin' rails, swappin' tales around the fire, 'cept for Sunday, when you lie around all day. Soon your friends are more like family,and they's beggin' you to stay! Ain't that neat? Livin's sweet in Santa Fe.
(spoken) Hey, no one worries about no gimp leg in Santa Fe. You just hop a Palomino, you'll ride in style.
[Crutchie] (spoken) Feature me ridin' in style.
[Jack] (spoken) Hey, I bet a few month of clean air, you could toss that could toss that crutch for good!
[Jack and Crutchie] Santa Fe, you can bet we won't let them bastids beat us. We won't beg no one to treat us fair and square. There's a life that's worth livin', and I'm gonna do my share.
[Jack] Work the land, chase the sun.
[Jack and Crutchie] Swim the whole Rio Grande just for fun.
[Crutchie] Watch me stand! Watch me run...
[Jack] (spoken) Hey. Hey...
(sung) Don't you know that we'se a fam'ly? Would I let ya down? No way! Just hold on, kid, till that train makes Santa Fe.
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Post by Paper.Prince on Apr 6, 2018 21:02:51 GMT -5
Carrying the Banner
[Race] Hey! That's my cigar!
[Albert] You'll steal another.
[Specs] (referring to the other boys) Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo.
[Henry] I thought that I'd surprise my mother.
[Albert] (spoken) If you can find her.
[newsies] (spoken) Who asked you?
[Race] From Bottle Alley to the harbor, there's easy pickin's 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 that bell rings we goes where we wishes. We's as free as fishes. Sure beats washin' dishes. What a fine life carrying the banner home free all.
[Crutchie] (sung) It takes a smile that spreads like butter, the kind what 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, and Jo Jo] Summer stinks and winter's freezin' when you works outdoors.
[Jack, Tommy Boy, Crutchie, Buttons, and Jo Jo] Start out sweatin', end up snezin', 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? Waitin' 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.
[Race] Curdled coffee, concrete donuts spinkled with mold, homemade biscuits, just two years old.
[nuns] Blessed children, ah. Jesus loves you, ah.
[Elmer] Just give me half a cup.
[Henry] Something to wake me up.
[Romeo] I gotta find me an angle.
[Tommy Boy] It's getting bad out there.
[Mush] Papers is all I got.
[Specs] It's eighty-eight degrees.
[Jo Jo] Jack says to change my spot.
[Sniper] Wish I could catch a breeze.
[Finch] Maybe it's worth a shot.
[Buttons] All I can catch is fleas.
[Jack] If I hate the headline, I'll make up the headline.
[Jack and Crutchie] And I'll say anything I have'ta 'cause at two for a penny-
[Jack, Crutchie, Race, and Romeo] If I take too many, Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta.
[newsies group 1] Got a feelin' 'bout the headline! I smells me a headline! Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' 'em away! Bet'cha dinner it's a doozy 'bout a pistol-packin' floozy who knows how to make a newsie's day!
[newsies group 2] I do, too! So it must be true! What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich! Don't know any better way to make a newsies day!
[newsies] You wanna move the next edition? Give us an earthquake or a war.
[Elmer] How 'bout a crooked politician?
[newsies] Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more! Uptown to Grand Central Station, down to City Hall, we improves our circulation walkin' 'till we fall!
[newsies group 1] But we'll be out there carrying the banner man to man. We're always out there soakin' ev'ry 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!
[newsies group 2] Got a feelin' 'bout the headline! I smells me a headline! Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' 'em away! Bet'cha dinner it's a doozy 'bout a pistol-packin' floozy! Don't know any better way to make a newsie's day! I was stakin' out the circus, and then someone said that Coney's really hot. But when I get there, there was Spot with all his cronies. Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play the ponies! We at least deserve a headline for the hours that they work us. Eesh, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus...
[newsies] We'll all be out there carrying the banner man to man. We're always out there soakin' ev'ry soaker 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! Ah, ah, ah, go!
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Post by Paper.Prince on Jun 1, 2018 15:51:31 GMT -5
The Bottom Line
[Pulitzer] (spoken) Gentlemen, we need to sell more papers. There's answer right before your eyes, but you're just not thinking this through.
(sung) Nunzio knows when he's cutting my hair, trim a bit here and then trim a bit there. Just a modest adjustment can fatten the bottom line.
[Bunsen] (spoken) What if we cut back personnel?
[Seitz] (spoken) How about a few salary trims?
[Bunsen] (spoken) We could lower the price of the paper.
[Pulitzer] (spoken) Bankrupting me even faster! Let me try again:
(sung) Shaving is tricky: the razor should float. Shave me too close and you may slit throat. It's the simplest solutions that bolster the bottom line.
[Bunsen] (spoken) I've got it! If we charge the newsies sixty cents per hundred instead of fifty...
[Seitz] (spoken) ...They'd have to sell ten more papers just to earn the same amount as always.
[Pulitzer] (spoken) My thought exactly. It's genius.
[Hannah] (spoken) It's gonna be awfully rough on those children.
[Pulitzer] (spoken) They'll be learning a real life lesson in economics. I couldn't offer them a better education if they were my own.
(sung) Give me a week and I'll train them to be like an army that's marching to war. Proud of themselves and so grateful to me, they'll be begging to pay even more! When there's dirt on our shoes, boys, for god's sake, relax! Why throw them out? All we need is some wax. Listen well to these barbershop lessons, for they'll see you through.
[employees] When you're stuck in the muck you'll be fine. You'll erase any trace of decline.
[Seitz] With a trim.
[Hannah] And a snip.
[Bunsen] And a shine!
[Pulitzer] And the pow'r of the press, yes! Once again is mine!
(spoken) The price for the newsies goes up in the morning!
(sung) Just a few common cents, gents, that's the bottom line!
[employees] Every new outcome it's income for you, thanks to that bottom line!
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Post by Paper.Prince on Aug 29, 2018 11:02:33 GMT -5
That's Rich
[Medda] I'm doing alright for myself folks: I'm healthy, I'm wealthy, I'm wise. My investments and such have all gone up so much- seems whatever I touch starts to rise. I've got men, I've got money, and yet the thing I want most... I can't get.
I live in a mansion on Long Island sound. I pulled up a weed. They found oil in the ground. But you telling me you don't want me around- now, honey, that's rich. Some guys give me diamonds as big as a sink. But you wouldn't give me as much as a wink- now, baby, that's rich.
I get brandy from Andy and candy from Scott. Oh, and Frank and Eduardo chipped in for a yacht. I get stares from the fellas and prayers from the pope. But I ran out my luck getting stuck on some dope!
[Medda] (spoken) Hey baby, I was just talking about you.
[Medda] (sung) Now, listen, sport,this life's too short to waste it on you. It may be rough, but soon enough I'll learn to make do with the mansion, the oil well, the diamonds, the yacht, with Andy, Eduardo, the Pontiff and Scott and Frank. And my bank! So spill no tears for me. 'Cause there's one thing you ain't that I'll always be, and honey, yeah, that's right, that's rich! That's rich! That's rich! That's rich!
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Post by Paper.Prince on Aug 29, 2018 11:08:09 GMT -5
I Never Planned on You/Don't Come a-Knocking
[Jack] (spoken) Well, hello again.
[Katherine] (spoken) Please go away. I'm working.
[Jack] (spoken) A smart girl, eh? Beautiful. Smart. Independent.
(sung) I got no use for moonlight or sappy poetry. Love at first sight's for suckers, at least it used to be. Look, girls are nice, once or twice, till i find someone new, But I never planned on someone like you.
I got no use for moonlight or sappy poetry. Love at first sight's for suckers, at least it used to be.
[Bowery Beauties] Don't come a knocking on my door. You aren't welcome here no more. I should have known you stunk like yesterday's trash the night. You stole my heart plus forty dollars in cash. Turns out my beau is just some bum. Turns out that love ain't blind, it's dumb. You never told the truth or worked a day in your life. In fact, you're so revoltin', I feel bad for your wife.
[Katherine] (spoken) What are you doing?
[Bowery Beauties] I won't be shaving your back anymore, no, senor.
[Jack] (spoken) Quiet down. There's a show going on.
[Bowery Beauties] Don't come a-knocking on my door!
[Katherine] (spoken) You are the most impossible boy ever.
[Bowery Beauties] Don't come a-knocking on my door!
[Jack] (spoken) Shh!
(sung) No, I never planned on someone like you.
[Bowery Beauties] Don't come a-knocking on my door!
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Post by Paper.Prince on Aug 29, 2018 11:19:28 GMT -5
The World Will Know
[Jack] Pulitzer and Hearst, they think we're nothing'. Are we nothin'?
[newsies] No!
[Jack] Pulitzer and Hearst, they think they got us. Do they got us?
[newsies] No!
[Jack] Even though we ain't got hats or badges, we're a union just by saying so. And the world will know. What's it gonna take to stop the wagons? Are we ready?
[newsies] Yeah!
[Jack] What's it gonna take to stop the scabbers? Can we do it?
[newsies] Yeah!
[Jack] We'll do what we gotta do until we break the will of mighty Bill and Joe.
[newsies] And the world will know. And the journal too.
[Jack and Davey] Mister Hearst and Pulitzer, have we got news for you.
[newsies] See, the world don't know know, but they're gonna pay.
[Jack and Davey] 'Stead of hawkin' headlines we'll be makin' 'em today.
[newsies] And our ranks will grow.
[Crutchie] And we'll kick their rear!
[newsies] And the world will know that we been here.
[Jack] When the circulation bell starts ringing, will we hear it?
[newsies] No!
[Jack] What if the Delancey's come out swinging? Will we hear it?
[newsies] When ya got a hundred voices singing, who can hear a lousy whistle blow? And the world will know that this ain't no game. That we got a ton of rotten fruit and perfect aim. So they gave their word. Well, it ain't worth beans. Now they're gonna see what "Stop the presses" really means. And the old will weep, and go back to sleep. And we got no choice but to see it through.
[Race] And we found our voice.
[Specs] And I lost my shoe!
[newsies] And the world will-
[Jack] Pulitzer may own the world, but he don't own us!
[newsies, Davey, and Les] Pulitzer may own the world, but he don't own us!
[Jack] Pulitzer may crack the whip, but he won't whip us!
[newsies] Pultizer may crack the whip, but he won't whip us! And the world will know we been keepin' score. Either they gives us our rights or we gives them a war. We been down too long, and we paid our dues.
[Crutchie] And the things we do today will be tomorrow's news.
[newsies] And the die is cast, and the torch is passed. And a roar will rise from the streets below, And our ranks will grow and grow and grow . And so the world will feel our fire and finally know! Pulitzer may own the world, but he don't own us!
[Jack] Pulitzer may own the world, but he don't own us!
[newsies] Pulitzer may crack the whip, but he won't whip us!
[Jack] Pulitzer may crack the whip, but he won't whip us!
[newsies] So the world says "No!" well the kids do too! Try to walk all over us, we'll stomp all over you!
[Crutchie] Can they kick us out? Take away our vote?
[newsies] Will we let 'em stuff this crock of garbage down our throat? No! Everyday we wait is a day we lose!
[newsies] And this ain't for fun! And it ain't for show! And we'll fight 'em toe to toe to toe! And Joe, your world will feel the fire and finally, finally know!
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