B F#7
Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
B
He knows the low-down (now it can be told)
F#7
I'll tell you quite reliably off the record
B
About some charming people I have known
For I meet politicians, and grafters by the score
C# F# F#7
Killers plain and fancy, it's really quite a bore
B F#7
Oh, newspapermen meet such 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
F#7
Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
B
It's wonderful to represent the press
B F#7 B
B F#7
Now, you remember Mrs. Sadie Smuggery
She needed money for a new fur coat
B F#7
To get insurance, she employed skullduggery
B
She up and cut her husband's only throat
She chopped him into fragments, she stuffed him in a trunk
F#7
She shipped it all back yonder to her uncle in Podunk
B F#7
Now, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
B
It must have startled poor old Sadie's unc
F#7
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk;
B
Hold the press, Hold the press;
F#7
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
B
It's a mess, meets the test
F#7
Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people!
B
It's wonderful to represent the press
B F#
B F#7
Now, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
I've met the gal with million-dollar knees
Oh, so the guy who sat five years upon a steeple;
B
Just where the point was I could never see
F#7 B
Yes, I've met Capone and Hoover, and lots of other fakes
F# F#7
I've even met a genius who swallows rattlesnakes
B F#7
Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people!
The richest girl who could not bake a cake
Ting-a-ling
Ting-a-ling
Ting-a-ling
B F#7
Now, newspapermen are such interesting people!
They used to work like hell just for romance
B F#7
But finally, the movies notwithstanding
B
They all got tired of patches on their pants
They organized a union to get a living wage
C#7 F# E
They joined with other actors upon a living stage
B F#7
Now newspapermen are such interesting people
B
When they know they've got a 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
F#7
Now, newspapermen are such interesting people!
B
It's wonderful to represent the Guild
B F#7
B F#7
Oh, publishers are such interesting people!
B F#7
Their policy's an acrobatic thing
B F#7
They claim they represent the common people
B
It's funny Wall Street never has 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 F#7
Now, are publishers are such 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
F#7
Oh, publishers are such interesting people!
B
Let's give three cheers for freedom of the press
