Newsies Sentence Starters
“ they sucked the life right outta my old man. ”
“ but everyone wants to come to new york. ”
“ give me a big life in a small town. ”
“ me? I’m dyin’ to get away… ”
“ while I ain’t never been there, I can see it clear as day! ”
“ close your eyes, come with me… ”
“ welcome home, son, welcome home to santa fe! ”
“ ain’t that neat? livin’ sweet! ”
“ there’s a life that’s worth the livin’… ”
“ don’t you know that we’s a family? ”
“ hey! that’s my cigar! ”
“ I thought that I’d surprise my mother, ”
“ who asked you?! ”
“ it’s a crooked game we’re playin’, one we’ll never lose. ”
“ ain’t it a fine life! ”
“ when that bell rings, we goes where we wishes, we’s as free as fishes! ”
“ what’s your leg say, gonna rain? ”
“ summer stinks and winter’s freezing… ”
“ waiting makes me antsy. ”
“ though you wander lost and depraved, jesus loves you. ”
“ you shall be saved. ”
“ if I hate the headline… I’ll make up a headline! ”
“ bankrupting me even faster! ”
“ shaving is tricky, the razor should float. shave me too close and you may slit my throat… ”
“ It’s gonna be awfully rough on those children…”
“ they’ll be learning a real life lesson in economics. ”
“ give me a week and I’ll train them to be like an army that’s marching to war! ”
“ every new outcome, it’s income for you. ”
“ I’m doing alright for myself folks, ”
“ I’m healthy, I’m wealthy, I’m wise! ”
“ I’ve got men, I’ve got money, and yet… the thing I want most? I can’t get. ”
“ uh, that feels good. I like that. ”
“ this life’s too short to waste it on you. ”
“ it may be rough, but soon enough I’ll learn to make do. ”
I Never Planned On You / Don’t Come a-Knocking
“ please go away. I’m working. ”
“ I got no use for moonlight, or sappy poetry. ”
“ love at first sight’s for suckers, at least it used to be… ”
“ girls are nice, once or twice, ‘til I find someone new. ”
“ but I never planned on someone like you… ”
“ don’t come a-knocking on my door. ”
“ I should have known, you stunk like yesterday’s trash! ”
“ turns out my beau is just some bum… ”
“ turns out that love ain’t blind, its dumb. ”
“ you never told the truth or worked a day in your life! ”
“ you are the most impossible boy… ever! ”
“ the world don’t know, but they’re gonna pay! ”
“ the world will know that we’ve been here! ”
“ when you got a hundred voices singin’, who can hear a lousy whistle blow? ”
“ we got a ton of rotten fruit and perfect aim! ”
“ now we got no choice but to see it through… ”
“ either they gives us our rights or we gives them a war! ”
“ everyday we wait is a day we lose. ”
“ all I know is I don’t know what to write, or the right way to write it. ”
“ it could practically write itself— and let’s pray it does, cause as I may have mentioned, I have no clue what I’m doing. ”
“ this is what I’ve been waiting for! well that, plus the screaming of ten angry editors. ”
“ there’s a story behind the story. ”
“ just look around at the world we’re inheriting, and think of the one we’ll create! ”
“ no sir, we’ll stay young forever! ”
“ all I know is nothing happens if you just give in. ”
“ tell those with power safe in their tower: we will not obey! ”
“ someday becomes somehow, and a prayer becomes a vow. ”
“ and the strike starts right damn now! ”
“ no one can make us quit before we’re done! ”
“ let me go far away, somewhere they won’t ever find me, and tomorrow won’t remind me of today… ”
“ and I’m gone, and I’m done. ”
“ just a moon so big and yellow, it turns night right into day… ”
“ dreams come true. yeah they do. ”
“ where does it say you gotta live and die here? ”
“ why should you spend your whole life living trapped where there ain’t no future? ”
“ if the life don’t seem to suit ya’, how about a change of scene? ”
Watch What Happens ( Reprise )
“ there’s no way I am putting them kids back in danger. ”
“ so here’s how it goes once we win, ”
“ did they bust up your brains or somethin’? ”
“ and you know why a snake starts to rattle? ”
“ yes, we’re terrified, but watch what happens! ”
“ you can’t undo the past, so just move on and stay on track. ”
The Bottom Line ( Reprise )
“ time’s running out, kid, so what do you say? ”
“ your abject surrender was always the bottom line. ”
“ too bad you’ve no family, but you can’t have mine. ”
“ be glad you’re alive, boy, I’d say that’s the bottom line. ”
“ that’s our cue, boys, it’s time to go slummin’! ”
“ pay us a visit, you’ll see what we means, ”
“ now them soakers is in for a soakin’! ”
“ what a sad way to end a career… ”
“ ‘til the moment I found you, I thought I knew what love was, ”
“ the world finds ways to sting you and then one day decides to bring you something to believe in. ”
“ one night may be forever, ”
“ and if you’re gone tomorrow, what was ours still will be. ”
“ I have something to believe in, now that I know you believed in me. ”
“ do you know what I believe in? look into my eyes and see. ”
“ there’s change coming once and for all, ”
“ and sure as a star, we ain’t come this far… to lose. ”
“ this is the story we needed to write, ”
“ write it in ink or in blood, it’s the same either way, they’re gonna damn well pay! ”
“ wherever you go, I’m there right by your side. ”
“ 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… ”
“ but they don’t much matter if you ain’t with me. ”
“ Suddenly I’m respectable. ”
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