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| | The MTA Song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The MTA Song, often called Charlie on the MTA, is a song from the 1940s about a man trapped on Boston's subway system (then known as the MTA and now known officially as the MBTA and colloquially as the T). | | | The Boston punk rock band Dropkick Murphys adapted the song for its first full-length album Do or Die. | | | The song is so well-known in Boston that the MBTA's "Easy Way" card-based fare collection system, which will replace the traditional token system in 2006, has been officially nicknamed the "CharlieCard" in homage to this song. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MTA_Song
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| | Interview with Fred Small |
| | Song called Oops, it's not recorded, but there are songs that I've recorded that I can't do anymore that I used to do all the time. | | | Specifically about the song Oops!, I think if I ever did a children's album, that might be a really good song for it. | | | I liked the idea of sneaking in that concept in a song where it was not the main thrust of the song, so I made that change and I think it made the song better. |
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http://www.jg.org/folk/artists/fredsmall/interview.html
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| | The MTA Song |
| | Oktoechos / Favola Boccaccesca / Song of Songs | | | Charlie on the MTA Lyrics and History (http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jdreed/t/charlie.html) | | | The song is best known for its chorus: |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/The_MTA_Song
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| | The Physical Revue, by Tom Lehrer |
| | These are the earliest recordings made of Tom Lehrer, almost* the only recordings of Lehrer songs with contrapuntal words (i.e. | | | Links for the remaining songs will be added before the end of September, though these will be lyrics and midi files only, and will not include recordings. | | | Note: Recordings are posted only for the seven songs marked *. |
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http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/lehrer/physrev.htm
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| | Charlie on the M.T.A. |
| | The melody of this song is a fairly old one. | | | In 1959, The Kingston Trio released a recording of the song. | | | One recording was made of each song, and they were broadcast from a sound truck that drove around the streets of Boston. |
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http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jdreed/t/charlie.html
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| | Several of the songs, as well as the MTA song, were so poignant and humorous. | | | This new political satirical song brings out a message the country might actually listen to, as it is a melody so many love, across the political spectrum. | | | Our parents have both died peacefully (thank you for your song "White Buffalo", which has helped me grieve within the past two years) and so many friends and relatives have sung and listened to the MTA song in celebration of my parents' lives. |
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http://rodmacdonald.net/usa.htm
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| | Folk File: W |
| | Waltzing Matilda the unofficial anthem of Australia and one of the best-known songs in the English language. | | | The first is any song that suits the singer, and is used to pass the time, etc. The second is a song that actually participates in the work, generally used for coordinating the effort of a group or pacing the work. | | | The last is the forerunner of songs like "Wreck of the Old 97" (see train songs) and "MTA Song" (see folk process). |
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http://www.folklib.net/folkfile/w.shtml
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| | When Will Holt recorded the number as a pop song for Coral, the record company was astounded by a deluge of protests from Boston because the song made a hero out of a local "radical". | | | The record was hastily withdrawn an a new version recorded which eliminated O'Brien's claim to musical fame. | | | "M.T.A." reached No. 15 on the charts, helping the album from which it came, The Kingston Trio At Large, climb to No. I for 15 weeks and eventually go gold. |
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http://www.tzengs.com/MTA_lyrics.htm
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| | Folk File: H |
| | The songs are similar to the blues, but were sung unaccompanied. | | | halyard song one of the types of shanties. | | | Hal-an-Tow the name of a song well-known in British traditional music, often sung by morris teams in connection with the May 1 sunrise ritual ("We were up, long before the day-o, to welcome in the summer..."). |
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http://www.folklib.net/folkfile/h.shtml
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| | The Oberlin Review Online // Arts |
| | The Murphys' modern-day take on the 1940s protest song, "The MTA Song," "Skinhead on the MBTA," disappointed none when it was played as one of the last songs. | | | The band wrapped up, but the audience was having none of it, chanting "Dropkicks!" over and over until the boys came back for their encore. | | | Included in it was a traditional Irish folk song and finally a medley that included AC/DC's classic "TNT. |
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http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/archives/2000.03.17/arts/murphys.html
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| | Serebella Contents The Loved One---The MTA Song |
| | An annual song contest created by the EBU to "choose a song for Europe". | | | It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Song". | | | I love hearing the song of canary birds |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/contains-429215-429699-The_Loved_One-The_MTA_Song.html
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| | chartbuster karoke resources |
| | The MTA Song, often called Charlie on the MTA, is an old song about a man trapped on Boston's subway, the MTA (since superseded by the MBTA). | | | ...song karaoke, karaoke christian songs, karaoke cd locations mn, free download of celine dion songs for karaoke sin, and chartbuster karoke. | | | The MTA Song - definition of The MTA Song in Encyclopedia |
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http://www.resource101.info/karaoke/chartbuster-karoke.php
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| | Orrie de Nooyer Auditorium in Hackensack, NJ on October 2, 1982 |
| | The Kingston Trio's music had purpose; it was not "ditties" or crooning love songs. | | | In addition, they've introduced the new songs (which appear on their newest album with Nautilus Recordings released May 1979) "Aspen Gold" and "Longest Beer of the Night". | | | The Trio's entertainment concept is as meaningful and enjoyable today as it was in 1 958 when "Tom Dooley" first hit the charts. |
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http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/articles/pgrm1982-10-02/Program10-2-82.htm
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| | A 7” 45 record, A Single Girl/Spinning Wheel (RCA 101700) was later released from the album. | | | The album’s title song was also the theme from Dave’s Place. | | | She chose a series of songs which revolved around the album’s central theme of “a single girl’. |
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http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/DavesPlace/DFDU--pt4.htm
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| | instructional |
| | Note: Most of these songs can be played with an 8-note bluegrass-style roll (waltz time songs are an exception), so when you are able to change chords on a song smoothly, try substituting a roll for the simple strum you've been doing. | | | The rest of the list is three-chord songs using the 1, 4, and 5 (e.g., G, C, and D7). | | | Remember, this type of guesswork is part of what being a musician is all about. |
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http://www.drbanjo.com/instructional/instruct04-j-3chords.html
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| | SF BAY GUARDIAN: Cover Story : Bars |
| | A folk singer named Will Holt subsequently heard the song played in Vesuvio by Specs ("to the accompaniment of a single chord played amateurishly on my guitar," according to Specs), and recorded it for Coral Records. | | | As he tells the story, Specs later brought the song to the attention of a New York radio station, where it was given it considerable airplay, resulting in its being picked up in 1959 by the Kingston Trio, who made it into a nationwide hit. | | | Reed's home page) turns up the fact that the MTA song was in fact originally written in 1948 by Jacqueline Steiner and |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lady/snapshots/specs-guardian.html
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| | Trio Kingston Lyrics, Mta Ringtone |
| | Site contains: popular lyric, song text, hot song lyrics, music texts, music lyrics, words to music and newest sheet music. | | | All song texts are personal interpretations of real songs and has no concern to the original texts. | | | More Lyrics > T > Trio Kingston Lyrics > Lyrics Mta |
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http://www.vlyrics.com/t/triokingston11038/mta350732.html
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| | Random Facts about the T |
| | It was written in 1948 as a campaign song for the mayorial election in Boston. | | | I heard Tom Lehrer wrote a song about the T? He did indeed. | | | (It's a parody of the children's song "Mother" and is sung to the same tune: |
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http://stuff.mit.edu/people/jdreed/t/t.html
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| | Song Lyrics |
| | This song is set to the tune of the old Kingston Trio song, The MTA Protest Song. | | | This is a song I have envisioned as one of those folk songs for which a thousand verses could be written: one (or more) for each kind of living thing. | | | Below is another example of a song that uses a recognizable tune. |
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http://www.tranquility.net/~scimusic/lyrics.html
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| | Click here to download the song "Farewell to Sicily," written by the late Hamish Henderson, a legend of Scottish songwriting, when he was stationed in Sicily in the Second World War. | | | Click here to download the song "The Women of Dundee," written by one of Scotland's finest living songwriters Sheena Wellington. | | | Click here to download the song "Four Green Fields," written by one of Ireland's most famous songwriters Tommy Makem. |
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http://www.tarasthistle.org/music.htm
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| | PVFS Guest Performers |
| | An accomplished singer of folk, international and classical songs, Jackie is best known as co-writer of “The MTA Song” about Charlie, "the man who never returned," which became a classic hit for the Kingston Trio. | | | Northampton duo who met at Wesleyan, Anand and Polly's songs resonate with heartwarming harmonies and a gutsy groove Anand is also guitarist for swinging string band Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem. | | | Ted is a versatile poet, and contemporary and friend of the late Allen Ginsberg. |
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http://www.filbert.com/pvfs/guests.htm
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| | OHEK - MUSIC HISTORY - SONG TITLES |
| | Many of the older songs were already in existence as folk songs until someone decided to add an introduction, change or clean up the words, and then copyright the song as their own (e.g. | | | The file contains about 5,000 songs and is therefore quite large and will take some time to download. | | | Some songs will appear at different places in the list as I may have entered them differently |
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http://www.ohek.co.uk/history/songs.htm
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| | Cathy Barton / Dave Para: Sweet Roseanne |
| | Convinced he was hearing the next national big folk hit, he added some verses of his own and published it for the group in his extensive series of field recordings, "Southern Journey" (Rounder CD 1701). | | | Why the hit never happened is beyond us, because it is a fun song for any gathering. | | | Pete Seeger has sung it many times, especially in his Clearwater concerts along the Hudson River. |
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http://www.mid-mo.net/dpara/discog/livriver/lr19.html
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| | KINGSTON TRIO, the m t a song Tabs, Lyrics, Chords for Guitar |
| | # #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------# {title:The MTA Song} {st:Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Hawes} [G]Now let me tell you of the story of a [C]man named Charlie On a [G]tragic and fateful [D7]day. | | | All tabs are the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the KINGSTON TRIO song. | | | KINGSTON TRIO, the m t a song Tabs, Lyrics, Chords for Guitar |
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http://www.tabpower.com/s17296.html
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| | My Story Chapter 1 |
| | From where I was sitting I couldn't see the most experienced guitarist's fingers, so I was watching another kid's fingers who didn't know all the songs either?but from where he was sitting he could see the other guy (who knew the chords to the song). | | | Then there was another time I and a kid whose name I don't remember were trying to prepare a song for performance at campfire. | | | He could only play in one key and I could only sing the song in another key. |
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http://www.stormpages.com/abysses/MyStory1.htm
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| | Children's Music |
| | If children's songs (some with movement/dance) are what you need, |
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http://www.jeffrysteele.com/childrens.html
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| | FRIENDS4EXPO TRANSIT NEWSLETTER Number 2 February 16 |
| | Someone has suggested that we simply write new words to the "Charlie and the MTA" song (don't remember the exact title) that the Kingston Trio used to sing. | | | We've got at least one movie score composer out there, and certainly many talented others who could write a theme song. | | | LET US KNOW IF YOU CAN HELP DISTRIBUTE OUR PRESS RELEASE when the EIR/EIS is released. |
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http://www.friends4expo.org/newsletter3.htm
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| | PVFS Happenings -- June 2003 |
| | Steiner and Hawes came up with the “MTA Song” about Charlie, “the man who never returned” because he couldn't afford the train exit fee. | | | It was later turned into a hit recording by the Kingston Trio and has become a popular classic at folk singalongs. | | | The PVFS Song and Story Swap happens the 2ND FRIDAY of every month. |
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http://www.filbert.com/PVFS/news/0306.htm
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| | Each song title is followed by the issue number in which the song appeared, the page number of that issue, and, if available in our database, the composer(s) of the song. | | | All of these songs appeared in Sing Out! | | | his index is broken into two parts: songs beginning with "numbers" through "L," and songs beginning with "M" through "Z." |
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http://www.singout.org/sng-ndx2.html
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| | MTA Lyrics - The Kingston Trio |
| | The CopyRight of The Kingston Trio - MTA Lyrics belongs to the writer or performer of The Kingston Trio - MTA Lyrics, If you want to use The Kingston Trio - MTA Lyrics, Please contact the writer or performer of The Kingston Trio - MTA Lyrics. | | | ::Lyrics >> :: The Kingston Trio - MTA Lyrics | | | Welcome to The Kingston Trio - MTA Lyrics |
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http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Kingston%20Trio%20Lyrics/MTA%20Lyrics.html
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| | NORCAL QRP - Pacificon 2004, Sam Ramon California |
| | Dave Yarnes also made it to sing the MTA song again. | | | I love to back him up on that song, because he really gets into it, and does a great job. | | | Song has designed this kit with a superhet receiver that has a 4 pole crystal filter, 1.2 watts of power, a VXO that covers about 12 kilohertz of tuning range, and a NorCal keyer chip included. |
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http://www.norcalqrp.org/pacificon2004.htm
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| | Postcard from Washington |
| | They’ve been playing and listening together since they were kids, and they collect obscure 19th-century instruments and they know that the 1948 “MTA Song” (“He may ride forever ’neath the streets of Boston. | | | The third brother was young and strong, except in one tiny, fatal way, and now he is gone and Sarah plays the guitar. | | | But it’s mostly out of passion; you get the feeling they love old-time music way too much to turn it into a mere living. |
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http://www.portlandphoenix.com/archive/features/01/12/07/Postcard.html
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| | Mta Lyrics - Kingston Trio |
| | The CopyRight of Kingston Trio - Mta Lyrics belongs to the writer or performer of Kingston Trio - Mta Lyrics, If you want to use Kingston Trio - Mta Lyrics, Please contact the writer or performer of Kingston Trio - Mta Lyrics. | | | ::Lyrics >> :: Kingston Trio - Mta Lyrics | | | search Kingston Trio - Mta Lyrics @ MSN |
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http://www.lyrics007.com/Kingston%20Trio%20Lyrics/Mta%20Lyrics.html
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| | The Fredösphere |
| | Here's what I remember: I found out the Trio's breakout hit was a song called Tom Dooley, and my first thought was that it might be the official title of the MTA song. | | | I selected the Tom Dooley track from the Kingston Trio CD I was listening to, and confirmed (as I remember) it was the MTA. | | | Thanks to visitor CGHill, who corrected a bizarre mistake I made in my |
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http://home.comcast.net/~fred_himebaugh/2005/07/tom-dooley-and-giant-electromagnets.html
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| | ::: L3xicon.com ::: |
| | I think every healer in any modality must read this book along with The Healer:Heart and Hearth, and Music and Song: Mother and Love, also by Dr. Diamond. |
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http://www.c.l3xicon.com/psychology.html
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| | Learn Guitar Playing the Hits - Lyric/chord sheets |
| | For my more advanced students, I have a tab library consisting of professional transcriptions of hundreds of of classic rock and acoustic pop songs from guitar books and magazines. | | | I've created this page to make a wide range of oldies available to my guitar students in lyric/chord format. | | | Search Tab Sites for a song or artist. |
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http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/songs.htm
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| | RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming |
| | Back when the Earth was cooling, the Kingston Trio recorded a song called "MTA" about a poor guy named Charlie who didn't have enough change to make a transfer off a Boston subway and so... | | | Email replies to this thread, to the address above. |
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http://www.rpg.net/forums/phorum/pf/read.php?f=8&i=1373&t=1373
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| | The Story of "Grandfather's Clock" |
| | Among his tunes are "Marching Through Georgia" and the nineteenth century hit, "The Ship That Never Returned." This tune inspired a re-working of the lyrics in "The Train That Never Returned," which inspired the tune "The Wreck of the Old '97." "The Wreck of the Old '97" is ever popular among fiddlers. | | | The Kingston Trio borrowed the tune by Work and added a melodic bridge in a further re-working of the original idea of "The Ship That Never Returned" which was called "The MTA Song." This song tells the story of Charley who rides a non-stop subway and just keeps on going round and round the system. | | | The tune My Grandfather's Clock became very well known, but perhaps more well known than even the tune is name for that type of clock. |
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http://www.fiddlerwoman.com/id71.htm
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| | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It replaced an earlier agency called the Metropolitan Transit Authority, or the MTA, as immortalized in the popular folk-protest lament "The MTA Song". | | | In 2006, the T expects to switch from tokens to a farecard system that will be called "The Charlie Card" in honor of the unfortunate hero of "The MTA Song". | | | The MBTA covered an expanded area of 78 cities and towns, with a 79th (Maynard joining in or before 1972 and leaving in or after 1976). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Transportation_Authority
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| | World Wide Wood: CharlieCard |
| | The system will be called the "CharlieCard", in reference to the 1940's Boston political song, Charlie on the MTA. | | | The song concerns a man named Charlie, who paid ten cents to get on the T, but didn't have the change to pay the five cent exit fare - a hot political issue at the time. | | | Charlie's fate is left up in the air, or down in the ground, so to speak - he just keeps riding along on the MTA. |
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http://prwdot.org/?p=archives/002136
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| | Weasner's Just for Fun! |
| | [With absolutely no permission and only the faintest of nods to Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Hawes, who wrote The MTA Song, to say nothing of... | | | Go back to the Just for Fun page. |
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http://www.weasner.com/etx/fun/etx_song.html
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| | www.GovExec.com - Gone forever (2/26/02) |
| | The chorus of the song, called "MTA," started with, "Did he ever return, no he never returned, and his fate is still unlearned..." | | | In the late 1950s one of the most popular groups of the time--the Kingston Trio--recorded a song about a man named Charlie who wouldn't get off the Boston transit train he was riding because the fare had gone up. | | | A frequent speaker on the budget and economy to audiences across the country, he is also author of "The Guide to the Federal Budget." To contact Stan, click here. |
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http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0202/022602bb.htm
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| | They were awesome tickets: we sat on the stage, in folding chairs, about 6 feet from the Man. I had loved his music since I was a kid, and I was transported. | | | The backside of MIT touched Kendall Square, Cambridge (where Charlie "handed in his dime" in the Kingston Trio MTA song). | | | After about six songs, he leaned over to me and said, "Can't we GO?" I said, "No. You don't have to like it, just remember. |
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http://www.multicians.org/thvv/tvvmem3.html
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| | Heather's World - More Quotes Than You Can Handle |
| | Several lines of lyrics to songs I've never heard(compliments of Julia) | | | To my friends, the idea of a letter that takes more than.000001 seconds to get there is un heard of | | | Banana boats are deadly, but taste really good |
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http://heather.creative-flow.net/camp.php
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| | 1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 53 performances | | | 1993 "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 53 performances | | | Song and Dance Act" opens at Gershwin New York City for 10 per |
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http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/y/york.html
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| | Download Hair of the Dog - Mta in MP3 Format |
| | There are links where you must click on them to download the song, you can download with right click. | | | Song Title: Hair of the Dog - Mta | | | Download Hair of the Dog - Mta in MP3 Format |
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http://www.mp3miracle.com/HairOfTheDog/Mta1
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| | Finn’s first musical experiences |
| | Angie singing “That’s What The Little Babies Do” and another original song she wrote for Finn. | | | What we would have played if we were cooler parents | | | Ice cream truck that plays “The Union Maid” in addition to “Pop Goes The Weasel” and more traditional ice cream truck tunes. The high school sports team here is the Red Riots, so there must be an interesting history to this town. |
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http://home.att.net/~c.b.brown/Finns_first_music.htm
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