Newspapermen

B                        
Oh, newspapermen meet such 
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interesting people!
He knows the low-down (now it can be
 B
 told)
I'll tell you quite reliably off the
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 record
About some charming people I have 
B
known

For I meet politicians, and grafters
 by the score
C#                F#             
Killers plain and fancy, it's 
            F#7
really quite a bore
    B                     
Oh, newspapermen meet such 
             F#7
interesting people!

He wallows in corruption, crime, and
 gore


Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk;

Hold the press, Hold the press;

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
                       B
It's a mess, meets the test
Oh, newspapermen meet such 
            F#7
interesting people!
It's wonderful to represent the 
B
press

B F#7 B
B                          
Now, you remember Mrs. Sadie 
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Smuggery

She needed money for a new fur coat
   B                          
To get insurance, she employed 
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skullduggery
She up and cut her husband's only 
B
throat

She chopped him into fragments, she 
stuffed him in a trunk
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She shipped it all back yonder to 
her uncle in Podunk
     B                     
Now, newspapermen meet such 
             F#7
interesting people!
It must have startled poor old 
        B
Sadie's unc

              F#7
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk;
Continúa después del anuncio
                         B
Hold the press, Hold the press;
       F#7
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
                       B
It's a mess, meets the test
Oh, a newspaperman meets such 
            F#7
interesting people!
It's wonderful to represent the 
B
press

B F#

     B                     
Now, newspapermen meet such 
             F#7
interesting people!

I've met the gal with million-dollar
 knees

Oh, so the guy who sat five years 
upon a steeple;
Just where the point was I could 
      B
never see
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Yes, I've met Capone and Hoover, 
                B
and lots of other fakes
          F#               F#7
I've even met a genius who swallows 
rattlesnakes
      B                      
Oh, a newspaperman meets such 
             F#7
interesting people!

The richest girl who could not bake 
a cake


Ting-a-ling

Ting-a-ling

Ting-a-ling
     B                    
Now, newspapermen are such 
             F#7
interesting people!

They used to work like hell just for
 romance
    B                  
But finally, the movies 
 F#7
notwithstanding
They all got tired of patches on 
      B
their pants

They organized a union to get a 
living wage
     C#7               F#         
They joined with other actors upon
   E
 a living stage
    B                    
Now newspapermen are such 
             F#7
interesting people
When they know they've got a 
                  B
people's fight to wage


Ting-a-ling-a-ling, Newspaper Guild
F#7
Got a free new world to build;

Meet the people, that's a thrill
                      B
All together fits the bill
Now, newspapermen are such 
            F#7
interesting people!
It's wonderful to represent the 
B
Guild

B F#7

    B                              
Oh, publishers are such interesting
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 people!
                            B    F#7
Their policy's an acrobatic thing
     B                             
They claim they represent the 
  F#7
common people
It's funny Wall Street never has 
    B
complained

But the publishers have worries, for
 publishers must go
   C#                F#
To working folks for readers, and 
big shots for their dough
         G#m                
Now, are publishers are such 
             F#7
interesting people!

It could be press-titution, I don't 
know

                         B
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, circulation
              F#7
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, advertising
                            B
Get those readers, get that payoff

What a headache, what a mess
Oh, publishers are such interesting 
F#7
people!
Let's give three cheers for freedom 
       B
of the press