Newspapermen

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[Verse 1]
[G]Oh, newspapermen meet such
Interesting [D]people!
[G]He knows the low down (now it
can be told)
I'll tell you quite reliably off [D]the record
About some [G]charming people I have known
For I meet politicians
And grafters by the score
Killers plain and [D]fancy
[G]It's really quite a [D]bore
Oh, [G]newspapermen meet such
Interesting [D]people!
He wallows in corrup[G]tion, crime,
and gore
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city city city [D]city city [G]desk

[Verse 2]
Hold [D]the
press, Hold the [G]press
Extra! [D]Extra! Read all [G]about it!
It's a mess, meets the test
Oh, newspapermen meet such
Interesting [D]people!
It's wonder[G]ful to represent the press
[D]Now, [G]you remember Mrs sadie
[D]Smuggery
She needed [G]money for [D]a new[G] fur coat
To get insurance,
she employed skullduggery
[D]She up and cut her hus[G]
band's only throat
She chopped him into fragments
She stuffed him in a trunk
She shipped it all [D]back yonder
To her un[G]cle in Podunk
[D]Now, [G]newspapermen meet such
Interesting [D]people!
It must have startled [G]poor
old Sadie's unc
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city [D]city city city city [G]desk

[Verse 3]
Hold the press, [D]Hold [G]the press
Extra! Ex[D]tra! Read [G]all about it!
It's a mess,
[D]meets [G]the test
Oh, a newspaperman meets
Such interesting people!
[D]It's wonderful to rep
[G]resent [D]the press[G]
[D]Now, [G]newspapermen

[Verse 4]
meet such
Interesting [D]people!
[G]I've met the[D] gal with million
dol[G]lar knees[D]
[G]Oh, so the guy who sat
Five [D]years upon a steeple
Just where the point [G]was
I could never see
Yes, I've met Capone and Hoover
And lots of other fakes
I've even met a [D]genius
Who swal[G]lows rattlesnakes
[D]Oh,[G] a newspaperman meets
Such interesting [D]people!
The richest girl [G]who could not bake a a
a a a a a cake

[Verse 5]
Ting-a-ling ting-a-ling [G]Ting-a-ling
[D]now[G], newspapermen
are such
Interesting [D]people!
[G]They used to work [D]like hell
just [G]for romance
But finally,
the movies notwithstand[D]ing
They all got tired of patches
[G]on their pants
They organized a union to get
a living wage
They joined with [D]other actors
Upon [G]a living stage
Now newspapermen are such
interesting [D]people
When they know they've got [G]a
People's fight to wage

[Verse 6]
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper [G]Guild
Got a free [D]new [G]world to build
Meet the people, [D]that's [G]a thrill
All togeth[D]er fit's [G]the bill
Now, newspapermen are such
Interesting [Am]people!
[D]It's wonderful to [G]represent
[D]the[G] Gu[D]ild
Oh, pub[G]lishers

[Verse 7]
are such
interesting [D]people!
Their policy's an acro
[G]batic [D]thing
[G]They claim they represent
the common [Am]people[D]
It's funny Wall [G]Street never has
complained
But the publishers have worries
For publishers must go
To working folks for read[D]ers
An[G]d big shots for their
dough
Now, are publishers are
Such interesting [D]people!
It could be press-titution,
[G]I don't know
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, circulation circulation
circulation
circulation

[Verse 8]
circulation
[G]
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
interesting [D]people!
Let's give three cheers for
Freedom [G]of the press