Текст песни Watch What Happens - Newsies - Original Broadway Cast

Write what you know, so they say
All I know is I don't know what to write
Or the right way to write it
This is big, lady, don't screw it up
This is not some little vaudeville I'm reviewing

Poor little kids versus rich greedy sourpusses
Ha! It's a cinch!
It could practically write itself
And let's pray it does, 'cause as I may have mentioned
I have no clue what I'm doing

Am I insane? This is what I've been waiting for
Well that, plus the screaming of ten angry editors
"A girl! It's a girl! How the hell?
Is that even legal?
Look, just go and get her!"

Not only that, there's a story behind the story
Thousands of children exploited, invisible
Speak up, take a stand
And there's someone to write about it
That's how things get better

Give life's little guys some ink and when it dries
Just watch what happens
Those kids will live and breathe right on the page
And once they're center stage
You watch what happens

And who's there with her camera and her pen
As boys turn into men?
They'll storm the gates and then
Just watch what happens when they do!

Picture a handsome, heroically charismatic
Plainspoken, know-nothing, skirt-chasing
Cocky little son of a-
Lie down with dogs and you wake up with a
Raise and a promotion

So, he's a flirt
A complete egomaniac
The fact is he's also the face of the strike, what a face
Face the fact, that's a face that could save us all
From sinking in the ocean

Like someone said, power tends to corrupt
And absolute power, wait, wait! Corrupts absolutely!
That is genius!
But give me some time, I'll be twice as good as that
Six months from never

Just look around at the world we're inheriting
And think of the one we'll create
Their mistake is they got old!
That is not a mistake we'll be making, no sir
We'll stay young forever!

Give those kids and me the brand new century
And watch what happens
It's David and Goliath, do or die, the fight is on
And I can't watch what happens

But all I know is nothing happens if you just give in
It can't be any worse than how it's been
And it just so happens that we just might win!
So whatever happens
Let's begin!