《Newspaper Men》歌词

[00:00:00] Newspaper Men - Pete Seeger (皮特·西格)

[00:00:04] Oh newspapermen meet such interesting people

[00:00:07] Then knows the low down (now it can be told)

[00:00:11] I'll tell you quite reliably off the record

[00:00:15] About some charming people I have known

[00:00:19] For I meet politicians and grafters by the score

[00:00:23] Killers plain and fancy it's really quite a bore

[00:00:26] Oh newspapermen meet such interesting people

[00:00:30] He wallows in corruption crime and gore

[00:00:33] Ting a ling city desk

[00:00:35] Hold the press Hold the press

[00:00:37] Extra Extra Read all about it

[00:00:38] It's a mess meets the test

[00:00:41] Oh newspapermen meet such interesting people

[00:00:44] It's wonderful to represent the press

[00:00:48] Now you remember Mrs Sadie Smuggery

[00:00:52] She needed money to by new fur coat

[00:00:56] To get insurance she employed skullduggery

[00:01:00] She up and cut her husband's only throat

[00:01:03] She chopped him into fragments she stuffed him a trunk

[00:01:07] She shipped back yonder to her uncle in Podunk

[00:01:11] Now newspapermen meet such interesting people

[00:01:15] It must have startled poor old Sadie's unc

[00:01:17] Ting a ling city desk

[00:01:19] Hold the press Hold the press

[00:01:21] Extra Extra Read all about it

[00:01:23] It's a mess meets the test

[00:01:25] Oh a newspaperman meets such interesting people

[00:01:29] It's wonderful to represent the press

[00:01:33] Oh publishers are such interesting people

[00:01:36] Their policy's an acrobatic thing

[00:01:40] They claim they represent the common people

[00:01:44] It's funny Wall Street never has complained

[00:01:48] But the publishers have worries for publishers must go

[00:01:52] To working folks for readers and big shots for their dough

[00:01:55] Now are publishers are such interesting people

[00:01:59] It could be press titution I don't know

[00:02:02] Ting a ling circulation

[00:02:03] Ting a ling advertising

[00:02:06] Get those readers get that payoff

[00:02:08] What a headache what a mess

[00:02:09] Oh publishers are such interesting people

[00:02:13] Let's give three cheers for freedom of the press

[00:02:17] Now newspapermen are such interesting people

[00:02:21] They used to work like hell just for romance

[00:02:25] But finally the movies notwithstanding

[00:02:28] They all got tired of patches on their pants

[00:02:32] They organized a union to get a living wage

[00:02:36] They joined with other actors upon a living stage

[00:02:40] Now newspapermen are such interesting people

[00:02:43] When they know they've got a people's fight to wage

[00:02:46] Ting a ling Newspaper Guild

[00:02:48] Got a free new world to build

[00:02:50] Meet the people that's a thrill

[00:02:52] All together fits the bill

[00:02:54] Now newspapermen are such interesting people

[00:02:57] It's wonderful to represent the Guild