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Thread #43070   Message #2444573
Posted By: Joe_F
18-Sep-08 - 08:39 PM
Thread Name: Origins/Tune Req: The MTA Song
Subject: RE: Origins/Tune Req: The MTA Song
One might note that the Boston subway has spawned another song, viz. Tom Lehrer's Red Line Song. I heard of its existence some years ago, but despaired of finding its text, so I wrote my own, which once I happened on the original I ended up preferring;

H is for our alma mater Harvard,
C for Central Square and City Hall,
K for Kendall, half a mile from nowhere*,
C for Charles Street Station, standing tall,
P for Park Street -- change for Cleveland Circle,
W for Washington: You see,
Put them all together, etc.

*I.e., MIT.