Chords for Newsies - Carrying the Banner Lyrics

[Bb] Hey, that's my cigar!
[D] You'll steal another!
Hey [Bb] look, it's [D] bath time at the zoo!
_ I [F] thought that I'd [Dm] surprise [G] my mother.
If you can find [D] her_
Who asked _ you?!
_ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
From Bottle Alley to [D] the Harbor,
There's easy pickings _ guaranteed. _
Try [A] any bank [D] of bum [G] or barber,
They [A] almost all knows [D] how to read. _
_ [G] It's a crooked game we're [D]
playing,
[G] One we'll never _ lose.
[Bb] _ Long as suckers [C] don't mind [F] paying,
[Bb] Just to get [A] bad _ news.
_ _ Ain't [D] it a fine life,
[G] Carrying the banner [D] through it _ _ [G] all?
_ A [D] mighty fine life,
[G] Carrying the banner, [D] talking _ [Gbm] tall.
_ [Bm] _ _ [Em] When that [D] bell rings,
We [A] go where we [Gbm] wishes,
These as [B] free as fishes,
Soar me quashing fishes.
[Em] What a [D] [G] fine [Ab] life,
[D] Carrying the banner home for you _ _ all.
Hey Crutchie, [B] what'd your legs say?
Gonna [Dm] rain?
[F] Uh, no rain.
[E] Oh, partly cloudy clear by evening.
Ha!
And the Limp [G] sells 50 papes a week all by itself.
I don't need the Limp to sell papes.
I got [A] portionality.
It [G] takes a smile that [D] spreads like butter,
The [G] kind what kinds [A] of ladies [D] hid.
It takes an orphan [Gb]
with [G] a stutter,
_ [Eb] Also blind [G]
and mute [D] and dead.
_ [G] Some are stinks and winter [D] freezing,
[G] Eat you worms out cold.
_ [Bb] Start out sweating and [C] don't [Bb] sneezing,
In bed sweet [D] it more.
_ [A] _ _
[D] Still it's a fine life,
[G] _ [A] Carrying the [D] banner, it's a fine life,
[G] _ Carrying the banner, [D] what's your face?
Big shots, [G] tossing [A] at a freebie,
[Gbm] There's a big shot, [Bm] tossing at a [Em] freebie.
Hey!
So hold up, [A] wait and make [Gbm] me antsy,
I like [A] smolvins.
_ All [B] up to the lansy, [Em] what a [D] [G] fine [Ab] life,
[D] _ Carrying the [G] banner through the
[D] _ Press _ _ [Bm] on, chew, _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ you [D] _ _
lost [Bm] _ _ _ and _ depraved,
[G] _ _ Jesus _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ loves you, _ _
_ [D] _ who [A] _ shall _
_ [D] be saved? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Curdle, just give me half [Bm] a cup,
_ Coffee, something to wake [G] me up,
_ Concrete though, [D] I gotta find a [Db] lingo,
_ Sprinkled [Bm] with more, it's getting bad [G] out there,
Papers is all I got,
Jake [Em] _ takes his change, my spot is set,
[G] Ketchup, sauce, it's [A] worth a shot,
I can catch [D] you if I hate the headline,
I'll make a [Bb] headline and I'll say anything I have to,
[D] Cause at two for a penny,
If I take too many, [Bb] weasel just makes me eat a map, _
[Em] Got a feeling about the headline,
I smell the headline [C] trace,
I'm gonna sell like we was given,
I'm [D] aware [Em] of sex with dinner, it's a lovely day,
I got this tobacco [C] going,
No matter make a new [B] DJ, _ _
[A] You wanna move my [E] next addition,
[Abm] _
[C] Give us a [E] heartbreak or a whore,
[G] I bought a [E] cooking mall [A] addition,
And [Gb] it went down [E] and goes no _ _ more,
[A] [B] I've come to [A] Grand [B] Central Station,
[A] Found a city _ _ [B]
[C] hall,
_ Reimproves our _ [G] circulation,
[C] Walk in [E] till we fall, _
_ _ So I can have a _ hurricane,
I'm better than this,
I'm gonna sell like we were given,
I'm aware of sex with dinner, it's a lovely day,
I bought a cooking mall addition,
[Abm] And it went down and goes no more,
I've come to _ _ [Dbm] Grand Central _ [Gbm] _ _ [E] Station,
And it went [B] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
down [Db] _ [Gbm] _ _ and goes no more,
I've come to Grand Central Station,
And it [E] went down and goes no more,
I've [Db] come to Grand Central _ [E] _ _ Station,
And it went down and [B] goes no more,
_ _ _ [G] _ [Abm] _ [Db] _ _
[D] [F] We'll all be out there,
[Bb] [Cm] Carrying the banner man [F] to _ _ [Bb] man, _
[F] We're always out there,
[C] _ Soaking every sucker [Am] that we can,
_ [Dm] _ _ _
[C] It's a _ headline,
Newsies on a mission,
Kill the competition,
Sell [D] the next [Bb] addition,
We'll be out there,
[Fm] Carrying the [Bb] banner,
See us out there,
[C] _ Carrying the banner,
[Bb] Always loud,
_ _ [C] Carrying _
[Fm] _ _ the banner, Always loud, _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _