Racetrack- That's my cigar

Snipeshooter- you'll steal anudder

Blink- Hey, bummers we got work to do!

Specs- Since when did you become me mudder?

Crutchy- Ah stop yer bawling!

Sevral newsies- who asked you? 

Mush- Try bottle alley or the harbor

Race- Try central park it's guaranteed

Jack- try any banker, bum, or barer

Skittery- They almost all know's how to read.

Blink- I smell money

Crutchy- you smeel foul!

Mush- Met this goil last night

Crutchy- Move your elbow

Race- Pass the towel

Skittery- For a buck I might! 

Newsies- Ain't it a fine life

Carrying the banner through it all?
A mighty fine life
Carrying the banner tough and tall
Every morning
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!

Jack- It takes a smile as sweet as butter

Crutchy- The kind that ladies can't resist

Race- It takes an orphan with a stutter

Jack- who ain't afraid to use his-

Blink- Fist! 

Newsies- 

Summer stinks and winter's waiting
Welcome to New Yawk!
Boy, ain't nature fascinating
When youse gotta walk?
Still, it's a fine life
Carrying the banner with me chums!
A mighty fine life
Blowing every nickel as it comes

Crutchy- I'm no snoozer, sitting makes me antsy I likes living chancy 

Newsies- Harlem ta Delancey what a fine life carrying the banner through the slums

Nuns- Blessed children though you wonder lost and depraved Jesus loves you, you shall be saved. 

                                                         Sung in counter part

Mother- Patrick darling since you left me I am undone mother loves you god save my son!

Race- Just give me half a cup

Blink- something to wake me up

Mush- I gotta find an angle

Crutchy- I gotta sell more papes

Various newsies- Papers is all I got Wish I could catch a breeze

Sure hope the headline's hot
All I can catch is fleas
God, help me if it's not!
Somebody help me, please ...

Newsies- If I hate the headline I'll make up a headline and say anything I have to. 'Cause it's two for a penny if I take to many, Weasel just makes me eat em afta.SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:

Group one:
Look! They're puttin' up the headline
You call that a headline?
I get better stories
From the copper on the beat!
I was gonna start at twenty
Now a dozen'll be plenty
Tell me, how'm I gonna make ends meet?
Group two:
What's it say?
That won't pay!
So where's your spot?
God, it's hot!
Will ya tell me
How'm I gonna make ends meet?
Newsies:
We need a good assassination!
We need an earthquake or a war!
Snipeshooter:
How 'bout a crooked politician?
Newsies:
Hey, stupid, that ain't news no more!
Uptown to Grand Central Station
Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walking till we fall
SUNG IN COUNTERPOINT:
Group one:
Still we'll be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
We'll be out there
Soakin' every sucker that we can!
See the headline:
Newsies on a mission!
Group one:
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
While we're out there
Carrying the banner is the –
Group two:
Look, they're puttin' up the headline
They call that a headline?
The idiot who wrote it
Must be workin' for the Sun!
Did ya hear about the fire?
Group three:
Heard it killed old man Maguire!
Group two:
Heard the toll was even higher
Group three:
Why do I miss all the fun?
Group two:
Hitched it on a trolley
Group three:
Meet 'cha Forty-fourth and Second
Group two:
Little Italy's a secret
Group three:
Bleecker's further than I reckoned
Group two:
By the courthouse
Group three:
Near the stables
Group two:
On the corner someone beckoned and I –
Group one:
It's a fine life
Carrying the banner through it all?
A mighty fine life
Carrying the banner tough and tall
See the headline
Newsies on a mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
What a fine life,
Carrying the banner
It's a fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a fine life
Carrying the banner
It's a
Go!
Group two:
Would you look at that headline?
You call that a headline?
I get better stories
From the copper on the beat!
I was gonna start with twenty
Now a dozen'll be plenty
Would you tell me how'm I ever
Gonna make ends meet?
Hitched it on a trolley
Meetcha Forty-fourth and Second
Little Italy's a secret
Bleecker's further than I reckoned
By the courthouse
Near the stables
On the corner someone beckoned!
Go get 'em Cowboy
You got 'em now, boy!
Go get 'em, Cowboy!
You got 'em now, boy!
Go!