Tonalité : B major
Verse 1
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Oh, newspapermen meet such
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Interesting people!
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He knows the low down (now it
can be told)
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I'll tell you quite reliably off the record
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About some charming people I have known
For I meet politicians
And grafters by the score
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Killers plain and fancy
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It's really quite a bore
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Oh, newspapermen meet such
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Interesting people!
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He wallows in corruption, crime,
and gore
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Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city city city city city desk
Verse 2
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Hold the
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press, Hold the press
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
It's a mess, meets the test
Oh, newspapermen meet such
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Interesting people!
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It's wonderful to represent the press
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Now, you remember Mrs sadie
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Smuggery
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She needed money for a new fur coat
To get insurance,
she employed skullduggery
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She up and cut her hus
band's only throat
She chopped him into fragments
She stuffed him in a trunk
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She shipped it all back yonder
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To her uncle in Podunk
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Now, newspapermen meet such
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Interesting people!
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It must have startled poor
old Sadie's unc
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Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city city city city city desk
Verse 3
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Hold the press, Hold the press
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
It's a mess,
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meets the test
Oh, a newspaperman meets
Such interesting people!
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It's wonderful to rep
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resent the press
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Now, newspapermen
Verse 4
meet such
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Interesting people!
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I've met the gal with million
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dollar knees
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Oh, so the guy who sat
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Five years upon a steeple
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Just where the point was
I could never see
Yes, I've met Capone and Hoover
And lots of other fakes
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I've even met a genius
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Who swallows rattlesnakes
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Oh, a newspaperman meets
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Such interesting people!
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The richest girl who could not bake a a
a a a a a cake
Verse 5
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Ting-a-ling ting-a-ling Ting-a-ling
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now, newspapermen
are such
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Interesting people!
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They used to work like hell
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just for romance
But finally,
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the movies notwithstanding
They all got tired of patches
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on their pants
They organized a union to get
a living wage
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They joined with other actors
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Upon a living stage
Now newspapermen are such
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interesting people
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When they know they've got a
People's fight to wage
Verse 6
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Ting-a-ling-a-ling, Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Guild
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Got a free new world to build
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Meet the people, that's a thrill
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All together fit's the bill
Now, newspapermen are such
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Interesting people!
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It's wonderful to represent
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the Guild
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Oh, publishers
Verse 7
are such
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interesting people!
Their policy's an acro
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batic thing
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They claim they represent
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the common people
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It's funny Wall Street never has
complained
But the publishers have worries
For publishers must go
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To working folks for readers
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And big shots for their
dough
Now, are publishers are
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Such interesting people!
It could be press-titution,
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I don't know
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, circulation circulation
circulation
circulation
Verse 8
circulation
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Ting-a-ling-a-ling, advertising
advertising
advertising
advertising
advertising
Get those readers,
get that payoff
What a headache, what a mess
Oh, publishers are such
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interesting people!
Let's give three cheers for
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Freedom of the press
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