[RACE]

(spoken)

Ya don't need money when you're famous! They gives ya whatever you want, gratis!

[HENRY]

(spoken)

Such as...?

[RACE]

(sung)

A pair o' new shoes with matchin' laces

[ROMEO]

A permanent box at the Sheepshead Races

[HENRY]

Pastrami on rye with a sour pickle

[FINCH]

My personal puss on a wooden nickel!

[RACE]

Look at me, I'm the King of New York!

Suddenly, I'm respectable

Starin' right at'cha

Lousy with stature

[ALBERT]

Nobbin' with all the muckety-mucks

I'm blowin' my dough, and goin' deluxe

[RACE]

And there I be!

Ain't I pretty?

[RACE & HENRY]

It's my city

I'm the King of New York!

[JOJO]

A solid gold watch with a chain to twirl it

[LES]

My very own bed and an indoor terlet

[MUSH]

A barbershop haircut that cost a quarter

[DAVEY]

A regular beat for the star reporter!

[RACE]

Am-scray, punk

She's the King of New York!

[KATHERINE]

Whod'a thunk! I'm the king of New York!

[NEWSIES]

We was sunk, pale and pitiful

[KATHERINE]

Bunch'a wet noodles

[KATHERINE & NEWSIES]

Pulitzer's poodles!

[LES]

Almost about to drown in the drink

[BUTTONS]

When she fished us out

[RACE]

And drowned us in ink!

[KATHERINE]

So let's get drunk!

[NEWSIES]

Yeah!

[KATHERINE]

Not with liquor, fame works quicker

When you're King of New York!

[NEWSIES]

I gotta be either dead or dreamin'

Cause look at that pape with my face beamin'

Tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it

But I was a star for one whole minute!

[Dance Break]

[KATHERINE & NEWSIES]

Look at me

I'm the King of New York!

Wait and see!

This is gonna make both the Delanceys

Pee in their pants-sies!

Flashpots are shootin' bright as a sun

I'm one highfalutin' son of a gun!

I guarantee

Though I crapped out, I ain't tapped out!

I'm the King of New-

Friends may flee

Let 'em ditch ya!

Snap one pit'cha

You're the King of New-

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I'm the King...

Of New York!