The M T A Song chords

The M T A Song

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{title:The MTA Song}
{st:Jacqueline Steiner & Bess Hawes}
GNow let me tell you of the story of a Cman named Charlie
On a Gtragic and fateful D7day.
He put Gten cents in his pocket, kissed his Cwife and family,
And went to D7ride on the MGTA.

{C:Chorus:}
     GWell did he ever return?  No he Cnever returned,
     And his Gfate is still unleD7arned.
     He may Gride forever 'neath the Cstreets of Boston,
     He's the Gman who D7never retGurned.

Charlie handed in his dime at the Kendell Square station,
And he changed for Jamaica Plain.
When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel."
Charlie couldn't get off that train.

     {C:Chorus.}

Now all night long Charlie rides through the station
Crying, "What will become of me?
How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsea,
Or my cousin in Roxbury?"

     {C:Chorus.}

Charlie's wife goes down to the Scolla Square station
Every day at a quarter past two.
And through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumbling through.

     {C:Chorus.}

Now you citizens of Boston, don't you think it's a scandal
How the people have to pay and pay?
Fight the fare increase, vote for Walter O'Brien,
And get Charlie off the MTA.

     {C:Chorus.}
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# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives
# by Steve Putz 
# 7 September 1992

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