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Santa Fe (Prologue)
Alan Menken
Featuring Andrew Keenan-Bolger & Jeremy Jordan (Actor)
Produced by Michael Kosarin, Frank Filipetti, Chris Montan & 2 more
Album Newsies (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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SANTA FE (PROLOGUE) LYRICS
[JACK, spoken]
Them streets down there, they sucked the life right outta my old man. Well they
ain't doin' that to me.?

[CRUTCHIE, spoken]
But everyone wants to come to New York.?

[JACK, spoken]
You keep your small life in the big city. Give me a big life in a small town.?

(sung)
They say folks is dyin' to get here
Me, I'm dyin' to get away
To a little town out west
That's spankin' new

And while I ain't never been there

I can see it clear as day
If you want, I bet'cha you could see it, too

Close your eyes

Come with me
Where it's clean and green and pretty
And they went and made a city outta clay

Why, the minute that ya get there

Folks'll walk right up and say
"Welcome home, son
Welcome home to Santa Fe!"

Plantin' crops
Splittin' rails
Swappin' tales around the fire
'Cept for Sunday when you lie around all day
Soon your friends are more like family
And they's beggin' you to stay!
Ain't that neat? Livin' sweet
In Santa Fe

(spoken)
Hey, no one worries about no gimp leg in Santa Fe. You just hop a Palomino, you'll
ride in style!

[CRUTCHIE, spoken]
Picture me, ridin' in style.?

[JACK, spoken]
Hey, I bet a few months of clean air, you could toss that crutch for good!

[JACK & CRUTCHIE, sung]

Santa Fe
You can bet
We won't let them bastards beat us
We won't beg no one to treat us fair and square
There's a life that's worth the livin'
And I'm gonna do my share

[JACK, sung]
Work the land, chase the sun

[JACK & CRUTCHIE, sung]

Swim the whole Rio Grande just for fun!

[CRUTCHIE, sung]
Watch me stand!
Watch me run...

[JACK, spoken]
Hey, hey...

(sung)
Don't you know that we's a family?
Would I let you down?
No way
Just hold on, kid
'Til that train makes Santa Fe

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RebeccaC 368
a year ago
The first song with lyrics in the musical establishes Jack as a dreamer. Although
orphans similar to Jack might have been transported to the North American southwest
as workers or to live with families by so-called orphan trains, Jacks conception
of Santa Fe as a small-town Eden is a fantasy based as much on dime novels or
landscape paintings as on slightly more accurate reports in newspapers.

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"SANTA FE (PROLOGUE)" TRACK INFO
Written By
Jack Feldman & Alan Menken
Release Date
May 15, 2012

Newsies (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2012)

Alan Menken
1.
Overture (Newsies)
2.
Santa Fe (Prologue)
3.
Carrying the Banner
4.
The Bottom Line
5.
That's Rich
6.
I Never Planned on You/Don't Come a-Knocking
7.
The World Will Know
8.
Watch What Happens
9.
Seize the Day
10.
Santa Fe
11.
King of New York
12.
Letter From the Refuge
13.
Watch What Happens (Reprise)
14.
The Bottom Line (Reprise)
15.
Brooklyn's Here
16.
Something to Believe In
17.
Once and For All
18.
Finale [Newsies]
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