Once

and For All

Newsies (1992)

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       
Jack Feldman Alan Menken

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  44
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This is the sto ry you want ed to write. Well, to night

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is the night that you can. Just get this done and by dawn's

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ear ly light you can fin ish the fight you be gan.

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                         
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This time we're in it to stay. Think a bout seiz ing the day.

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           
Think of that train as she rolls in to old San ta Fe.

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 'em I'm on  my
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way. See old man Pu it zer snug in his bed, he don't care

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Tell

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if we're dead or a live. Three sat in pil lows are un

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der his head while we're beg gin' for bread to sur vive.

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Joe, if you're still count in' sheep, wake up and read 'em and weep.

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You got your thugs with their sticks and their slugs, yeah, but we

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       
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           
got a pro mise to keep. Once and for all some thing tells

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         
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    
   
me the tide 'll be turn in' Once and for all there's a fire

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in side me that won't stop burn in'. Now that the choic es are clear,

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now that to mor ow is here, watch how the might y can fall

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       
         
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for once and for all.

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    
   
                 
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This is for kids shin in' shoes in the street with no shoes

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on their feet ev 'ry day. This is for guys swat in' blood

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in the shops while the boss es and cops look a way.

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This is to e ven the score. This ain't just new sies no more.

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This ain't just kids with some pie in the sky, this is do it or die, this is war!

           

                
        
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Once and for all we'll be there to de fend one an oth er

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Once and for all ev 'ry kid is our friend, ev 'ry friend a broth er.

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                            
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            
Five thou sand fists in the sky, Five thou sand rea sons to try.

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Five thou sand fists in the sky.

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Disney 5
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  
       
We're go in' o ver the wall.
Five thou sand rea sons to try.

          

         
                    
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        
       
Bet ter to die than to crawl. Ei ther we stand or we fall for

         

                  
    
             
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           
once, once and for all.

                 
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     
                       
    
 
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  
                       
                    

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