JACK (Spoken in time, having a mental breakdown)
Folks, we finally got our headline
"Pupsies Crushed as Bulls Attack"
Stumpy's calling me
Dumb wheel's just too dang slow
Pups are fightin', bleedin', fallin'
Thanks to the great ole' Coward Jack
[He walks out of the box.]
Coward Jack just wants to close his eyes and GO!
[He crushes the box, his home now destroyed. Jack looks at what he done. Making himself more upset than he already was.]
JACK (Sung, a little more quietly)
Let me go
Far away
Somewhere they won't ever find me,
and tomorrow won't remind me of today
And the city's finally sleepin'
And the moon looks old and grey
I get on a bus that's bound for Cowdog Ranch
[He walks in the shadows.]
JACK (Sung, strongly)
And I'm gone
And I'm done
No more running, no more barking.
No more tiny rich dogs denying me my pay
Just a moon so big and yellow, it turns night right into day
Dreams come true. Yeah they do. In Cowdog Ranch.
[He stomps his paws down hard.]
JACK (Sung, angrily)
Where does it say you gotta live and die here?
Where does it say a pup can't catch a break?
Why should you only take what you're given?
Why should you spend your whole life living
Trapped where there ain't no future, even at 6 months old!
Breaking your paws for someone else's sake!
If the life don't seem to fit ya, how about some brand new space?
Far from the lousy headlines, and the barking between
Cowdog Ranch, my old friend
I can't spend my whole life dreaming
Even though that's all I seem inclined to do
I ain't getting any cuter
And I wanna start brand new
I need space. And fresh air
Let 'em howl in my face. I don't care
Save my bed--
I'll be there.
[He stops in front of the barn, sightly panting, barely able to walk inside the hayloft]
JACK (Sung)
Just be real is all I'm asking,
Not some mud work in my head.
Cause I'm dead if I can't count on you today.
[He stands on top of a haystack]
JACK (Sung, almost whining)
I got nothing if I ain't got Cowdog Ranch!
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Pupsies - a Pawtastic New Musical
Fanfiction(Cover by Bug, their links are in the book.) Pupsies, a musical about the poor pups of Bark York trying to make a living off of selling papes to humans. (A parody of Newsies, I do not own newsies or it's characters. This is just something fun i'm do...
