Carrying The Banner chords by Newsies

Chords with lyrics

[Variuos Newsies:]

      Bb7Bb7
That's my cigar
    G/AG/A   D MajorD
You'll steal another
        Bb7Bb7    G/AG/A   D MajorD
Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo
        F7F7  D7D7    G+G
I thought that I'd suprise my mother
       Bb7Bb7   G/AG/A
If you could find her
      D MajorD    Bb7Bb7  A augmentedA
Who asked you

      G/AG/A     D/AD/A
From Bottle Alley to the harbor
       G/AG/A      D/AD/A
There's easy pickings guaranteed
    D7/A   D7D7   G+G
Try any banker, bum, or barber...
      G/AG/A        D MajorD
They almost all knows how to read!

[Jack:]
G+G    A/GA/G   G+G     A/GA/G
It's a crooked game we're playin'
 G+G     A/GA/G  G+G
One we'll never lose
 Bb majorBb   C/Bb  Bb majorBb    C/Bb
Long as suckers don't mind payin'
 Bb majorBb   C/Bb  AsusAsus
Just to get bad news


[Newsies:]
      D MajorD  D/F#D/F#
Ain't it a fine life
 G+G      G/AG/A        D MajorD  D/F#D/F#    G+G  G/AG/A
Carryin' the banner through it all
     D MajorD  D/F#D/F#
A augmentedA mighty fine life
 G+G      G/AG/A       F#m7F#m7   Bm7Bm7
Carryin' the banner tough and tall
     E minor 7Em7  D/F#D/F#
When the bell rings
G/AG/A       A7A7
We goes where we wishes
F#m7F#m7
We's as free as fishes
B7sus       B7B7
Sure beats washing dishes
    E minor 7Em7 D/F#D/F# G+G E7/G#
What a fine... life
 A7sus             D MajorD
Carryin' the banner home-free all!

[Jack:(Spoken)]
D MajorD
Hey Crutchie, what your leg say, gonna rain?


[Crutchie:(Spoken)]
     A7sus
No rain... Ha, partly cloudy clear by evenin'!


[Jack:(Spoken)]
A7sus
And the limp sells 50 papes all by itself!


[Crutchie:]
                          A7A7
I don't need a limp to sell papes. I've got personality.
      G7G7     G/AG/A     D MajorD
It takes a smile that spreads like butter
        G7G7   G/AG/A  D MajorD
The kind that turns a lady's head


[Racetrack:]
D/F#D/F#      D7D7  D7/F#D7/F#  G+G
  It takes an orphan with a stutter


[Jack:]
      Bb7Bb7
Who's also blind


[Mush:]
  G/AG/A
And mute


[Kid Blink:]
   D MajorD
And dead!


[Newsies:]
 G+G   A/GA/G    G+G    A/GA/G
Summer stinks and winter's freezing
 G+G    A/GA/G   G+G
When you works outdoors
 Bb majorBb    C/Bb   Bb majorBb   C/Bb
Start out sweating end up sneezing
Bb majorBb  C/Bb   A5A5
In between it pours!

        D MajorD  D/F#D/F#
Still, it's a fine life
 G+G      G/AG/A       D MajorD  D/F#D/F#    G+G  AsusAsus
Carryin' the banner with me chums
      D MajorD D/F#D/F#
A augmentedA bunch of big shots
 G+G       G/AG/A      F#m7F#m7   Bm7Bm7
Tossin' out a freebie to the bums


[Race:]
        E minor 7Em7
Hey! What's the hold up
 A7sus
Waitin' makes me antsy
F# minorF#m
I likes living chancey


[Newsies:]
B7sus    B7B7
Harlem to Delancey
    E minor 7Em7
What a fine life
 A7sus
Carryin' the banner through the


[Nuns:]
DsusDsus D MajorD BsusBsus B minorBm
Blessed children
DsusDsus    D MajorD   A/BA/B    B minorBm
Though you wander lost and depraved
G(add4) G(add2) EsusEsus E minorEm
   Jesus..... loves you
A7sus   A7A7 DsusDsus  D MajorD
You shall be saved!


[Race:] (In counterpoint to Nuns and other Newsies)
DsusDsus D MajorD BsusBsus B minorBm
Curdled coffee
 DsusDsus   D MajorD    A/BA/B     B minorBm
Concrete donuts sprinkled with mold
G(add4) G(add2) EsusEsus E minorEm
Homemade... biscuits
A7sus  A7A7   D5D5
Just two years old


[Jack:]
D5D5
If I hate the headlines
D5D5
I'll make up a headline


[Add Crutchie:]
   Bb7Bb7
And I'll say anything I hafta


[Add Newsies:]
    D5D5
'Cause at two for a penny

If I take too many
  Bb7Bb7
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta


[Group one:]                     [Group two:]
    E5E5
Got a feelin' bout the headline           I do too!
                                    C7C7
I smells me a headline                So it must be true

Papes are gonna sell like we was givin' em' away   What a switch!
    E5E5
Betcha dinner it's a doozy              Soon we'll all be rich

'bout a pistol-packing floozey
     C7C7
Who know how...                   Don't know a better way...


[Both Groups:]
           B7sus
...to make a newsie's day!


[Newsies:]
      A7A7   A/BA/B  E MajorE   E/G#
You wanna move the next edition
      C7C7    A/BA/B  E MajorE
Give us an earthquake or a war


[Snipeshooter:]
       G7G7   E7E7  A augmentedA
How 'bout a crooked politician


[Newsies:]
      C9C9    A/BA/B   E MajorE
Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more

 A augmentedA   B/A    A augmentedA    B/A
Uptown to Grand Central Station
 A augmentedA   B/A  A augmentedA
Down to City Hall
C majorC  D/C    C majorC  D/C
We improves our circulation
 C majorC    D/C  B7sus
Walking till we fall


[Group one:]               [Group two:]
       E5E5 E/G#
But we'll be out there          Got a feelin' bout the headline, I smells me a headline
 A augmentedA      BB      E5E5              E/G#       A augmentedA     BB
Carrying the banner man to man!      Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away
       E5E5 E/G#
We're always out there          Betcha dinner it's a doozy, 'bout a pistol-packing floozey
 A augmentedA       BB       G#m7G#m7                       C#m7C#m7
Soakin' every sucker that we can!     Don't know any better way to make a newsie's day
      F#m7F#m7
Here's the headline:           I was stakin' out the circus
 B7sus
Newsies on a mission!           And then someone said that coney's really hot
G#m7G#m7
Kill the competition           But when I get there
C#7sus     C#7C#7
Sell the next edition           There was Spot with all his cronies
     F#m7F#m7
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner  Heck, I'm gonna take what little dough I got and play the ponies
    G#m7G#m7    C#m7C#m7
See us out there, carryin' the banner   We at least deserve a headline for the hours that they work us
    F#m7F#m7 A augmentedA A# diminished A#dim B7sus     BB
See us out there, carryin' the banner   Jeez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus


[Newsies:]
    C majorC   FF  F/AF/A   Bb majorBb     C majorC       FF  F/AF/A    Bb majorBb  C majorC
We'll all be out there, carryin' the banner man to man
       FF  F/AF/A   Bb majorBb     C majorC       Am7Am7    Dm7Dm7
We're always out there, soakin' evey sucker that we can
     Gm7Gm7 Bbsus
Here's the head...line:
 C7susC7sus
Newsies on a mission
 Am7Am7
Kill the competition
D7susD7sus      D7D7
Sell the next edition
     Gm7Gm7     C7susC7sus
We'll be out there, carryin' the banner
    Gm7Gm7     C7susC7sus
See us out there, carryin' the banner
    Gm7Gm7     C7susC7sus
Always out there, carryin' the banner
       FF