Month: February 2019

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 Let me tell you of a story 'bout a man named Charlie
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 On a tragic and fateful day.
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 He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family,
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 Went to ride on the M T A.
 
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 But will he ever return?  No he'll never return,
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 And his fate is still unlearned.
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 He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston,
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 He's the man who never returned.
 
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 Charlie handed in his dime at the Scully Square Station,
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 And he changed for Jamaica Plain.
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 When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel!"
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 Charlie couldn't get off of that train.
 
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 Now all night long Charlie rides through the stations,
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 Crying, "What will become of me?
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 How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsey,
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 Or my brother in Roxbury?"
 
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 Charlie's wife goes down to the Scully Square Station,
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 Every day at a quarter past two.
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 And through the open window she hands Charlie his sandwich
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 As the train goes rumbling through.
 
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 Now you citizens of Boston, don't you think it's a scandal,
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 How the people have to pay and pay?
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 Fight the fare increase, vote for George O'Brien,
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 Get poor Charlie off the M T A!
 

[Verse]
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 C long time ago when the earth was green
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 There was more kinds of animals than you'd ever seen
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 They'd run around free while the world was being born
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 But the loveliest of them all was the unicorn
 
 [Chorus]
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 There was green alligators and long necked geese
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 Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
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 Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born
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 The loveliest of all was the unicorn.
 
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 Now god seen some sinning and it gave him a pain
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 And he says, stand back, "I'm going to make it rain!"
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 He says, "Hey, brother Noah I'll tell you what to do,
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 Build me a floating zoo,"
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 "and take some of them…."
 
 [Chorus]
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 Green alligators and long necked geese,
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 Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
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 Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born.
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 Don't you forget my unicorn."
 
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 Old Noah was there to answer the call,
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 He finished up making the ark just as the rain started pourin'
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 He marched in the animals two by two,
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 And he called out as they went through,
 
 "Hey lord,"
 
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 I got your green alligators and long necked geese,
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 Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees,
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 Some cats and rats and elephants, but lord, I'm so forlorn,
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 I just can't see no unicorn!"
 
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 Then Noah looked out through the driving rain,
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 Them unicorns were hiding, playing silly games.
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 Kicking and splashing while the rain was pourin'
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 Oh, them silly unicorns!"
 
 [Chorus]
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 There were green alligators and long necked geese,
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 Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
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 Noah cried, "Close the door cause the rain's pourin'
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 And we just can't wait for those unicorn!"
 
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 The ark started moving, it drifted with the tides,
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 Them unicorns looked up from the rocks and they cried.
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 And the waters came down and sort of floated them away,
 
 And that's why ya never seen a unicorn to this very day.
 
 [Chorus]
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 You'll see green alligators and long necked geese,
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 Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
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 Some cats and rats elephants, but sure as you're born,
 
 You're never gonna see no u--ni---corn