☁︎ My Favourite Lines from the Songs

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Santa Fe (Prologue)
⇒ Why the minute that you get there folks'll walk right up and say "Welcome home son, Welcome home to Santa Fe"
⇒ Watch me stand, watch me run (I love Crutchie sooooo much)
⇒ Don't you know that we's a family

Carrying The Banner
⇒ Hey, that's my cigar! (Iconic)
⇒ Eeeeeuuuuuuughhhh move your elbow! (Movie)
⇒ Ain't it a fine life carryin' the banner through it all
⇒ I don't need the limp to sell papes! I got pewrSONAwity!
⇒ It takes a smile that spreads like butter
⇒ Just give me half a cup
⇒ Papers is all I got
⇒ 'Cause at two for a penny if I take to many Weasel just makes me eat 'em after
⇒ We need a good assassination (movie)
⇒ Yeah nitwit that ain't news no more
⇒ We'll all be out there saokin' every sucker that we can

The Bottom Line
⇒ Give me a week and I'll train them to be like an army that's marching to war
⇒ Gents, that's the bottom Liiiiiiiiiinnneee

That's Rich
⇒ I've got men, I've got money, and yet the thing that I want I can't gettt
⇒ I pulled up a weed, they found oil in the ground
⇒ Hey baby, I was just talking 'bout you!
⇒ So spill no tears for me

I Never Planned On Someone Like You/Don't Come a Knockin' on my Door
⇒ Love at first sight's for suckers, at least it used to be (me when I saw Varian for the first time)
⇒ Look girls are nice, once or twice

The World Will Know
⇒ Even though we ain't got hats or badges (he says while literally everyone is wearing a hat)
⇒ When you got a hundred voices singin', who can hear a lousy whistle blow
⇒ We got a ton of rotten fruit and perfect aim
⇒ Either they gives us our rights or we gives them a war
⇒ So The World says 'no', well the kids do to. Try ya walk all over us we'll stomp all over you
⇒ Can the kick us out? TAKE AWAY OUR VOTE?!

Watch What Happens
⇒ A girl? It's a girl! How the hell? Is that even legal?
⇒ Not only that, there's a story behind the story. Thousands of children exploited, invisible
⇒ And who's there with her camera and her pen, as boys turn into men
⇒ Give those kids and me the brand new century

Seize The Day
⇒ Courage cannot erase air fear. Courage is when we face our fear
⇒ Tell those with power, safe in their tower, we will not obey
⇒ And the strike starts right damn now!
⇒ There gonna see there's hell to pay

Santa Fe
⇒ Captain Jack just wants to close his eyes and go!!
⇒ When I dream on my own I'm alone but I ain't lonely (movie)
⇒ No more fat old men denying me my pay
⇒ Santa Fe! My old friend! I can't spend my whole life dreamin', though I know that's all I seem inclined to do
⇒ Let 'em laugh in my face, I don't care
⇒ I got nothin' if I ain't got Santa FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! (and I got nothin' if I ain't got NEWSIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES)

King of New York
⇒ A pair of new shoes with matchin' laces
⇒ A Saturday night with the mayor's daughter ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (movie)
⇒ Ain't I pretty? It's my city
⇒ So let's get drunk! (Yeah! (^ω^)) NOT WITH LIQUOR! (Aww (−_−;))
⇒ I gotta be either dead or dreamin', 'cause look at that pape with my face beamin'! Tomorrow they may write fishes in it, but I was a star for one whole minute!
⇒ Wait and see, this is gonna make both the Delanceys pee in their pantsies
⇒ Once a piker now a striker! (Movie)
⇒ History! Front page story! Guns and glory!

Letter From The Refuge
(I literally love ever single word in this song but I'll put the best ones)
⇒ Oh yeah Jack, this is Crutchie by the way
⇒ They say "jump", boy you jump or your screwed
⇒ But the food ain't so bad, 'least so far. 'Cause so far they ain't brung us no food
⇒ Ha ha
⇒ Sleepin' right out in the open in your penthouse in the sky
⇒ And you're ridin' palominos everyday
⇒ Once that train makes — shhhhhh — damn this place
⇒ On the rooftop you said that a family looks out for each other
⇒ So you tell all the fellas for me to protect one another
⇒ The end, your friend, your best friend, your brother, Crutchie (I'm sobbing right now)

Watch What Happens (reprise)
⇒ And we'll tell 'em straight out they let Crutchie go or they keep getting pounded
⇒ Here's what I think: Joe's a jerk, he's a rattlesnake
⇒ Go and look it up the poor gUYS HEAD is spinning
⇒ And I've got a date!

The Bottom Line (reprise)
⇒ Cowboy or convict, I win either way
⇒ Too bad you've no family, but you can't have mine

Brooklyn's Here
⇒ We're from Brooklyn! We are newsies! We are Brooklyn... NEWSIEEEEEEEEES!!!
⇒ Hey Manhattan the cavalry's comin'
⇒ We'll get your pay back with some payback
⇒ Pay us a visit and see what we means. And when you do we'll take ya halfway to Queens!
⇒ So's The Bronx

Something to Believe In
⇒ An angel come to save me who didn't even know she gave me something to believe in
⇒ And if I'm gone tomorrow, what was ours still will be

Once and For All
⇒ This is the story we needed to write as we're kept out of sight but no more
⇒ Write it in ink or in blood it's the same either way
⇒ Three satin pillows are under his head as we's beggin' for bread to survive
⇒ Once and for all we won't carry no banners that don't spell 'freedom'
⇒ This is for kids shining shoes on the streets with no shoes on their feet everyday
⇒ This is for guys sweating blood in the shops as their bosses and cops look away
⇒ Once and for all we'll be there to protect one another. Once and for all every kid is a friend, every friend a brother (movie)
⇒ 10,000 kids in the square! 10,000 fists in the air!
⇒ 5,000 fists in the sky! 5,000 reasons to try!

Finale
⇒ Don't take much to be a dreamer. All you do is close your eyes. But some made up world is all you ever see

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