Chords for Newsies: Once and For All

[E] Old man Pulitzer never threw anything away.
[Em] This is gonna work.
The better.
We have a deadline.
[E] This is the story you wanted to write.
Well tonight, there's a night that you can't.
Just get this done and by dawn's early light
you can finish the fight you began.
[G] Just time we're in it to stay.
Think about seizing the day.
[B] Think of that train as she rolls into old Santa Fe.
Tell him I'm on my [E] way.
Old man Pulitzer snuck in his bed.
He don't care if we're dead or alive.
Three satin pillows are under his head
while we're begging for bread to [C#m] survive.
[E] [G] Joe, if you're still counting sheep,
wake up and read him and weep.
[B] You got your thugs with their snakes and their slugs.
Yeah, but we got our promise to keep.
[Am] Once and for all, something tells me the [F] tide will be turning.
_ [C] _ [D] Once and for [Em] all, there's a fire inside me
[Am] and that bull's stopped burning.
[A#] Now that the choices are clear,
[Bm] now that tomorrow is [E] here,
[F] watch how the mighty can [C] fall.
Once and for all.
[Am] _ It's awfully nice of Mr.
Pulitzer to let us use his presence.
I just hope I get to thank [B] him for it [Am] someday.
[B] _ [A] _
[B] _ [Am] _ [B] [E] This is for kids shining shoes in the street.
We roll shoes on their feet every day.
This is for guys sweating blood in the shop.
Can we read [G] that?
Take this.
Read this.
You [Bm] know how to read?
[B] [Bm] Read that, right?
[B]
Yeah, that's it!
_ _ [Am] Once and for all, we'll be there to defend one [F] another.
_ [D] Once and for all, [Em] every kid is our friend, every [Am] man our brother.
[A#] Hey, read my shirt.
What do you do [B] to each other?
I [Am] have my reasons, I [D] have my [F] reasons.
We'll try going over the wall.
[G] Stand at the [D] time of the [F#m] call.
[C] Here we stand, don't we fall.
[A] For _ [E] once, [Am] once and for all. _ _
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