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Let me tell you a story ‘bout a man named Charlie    

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On a trag-ic and fate-ful day__ He put ten cents in his pock-et, kissed his wife and fam_ - ‘ly,

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went to ride_  on the M. T. A.__

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Well, did he ever re-turn,___   NO!,__   he nev-er re-turned__

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And his fate_ is still__ un – learned__      

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He may ride for – ev – er ‘neath the streets of Bost – on

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He’s the man who nev-er re-turned

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Char-lie handed in his dime at the Kendall Square Station,

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Got a train for Ja-maic-a Plains.__   When he got there the conductor told him One more nickel! 

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Char-lie could-n’t get off  that train

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Now ALL NIGHT LONG  Char-lie rides through the the sta-tion

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Crying, “What will be-come of me?____ How can I af-ford to see my sist-er in Chel-sea

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or my cous-in in Rox-bur-y?____”

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Char-lie’s wife goes down  …       to the Kend-al Square Station

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Every day at quarter past two.__     And through the op-en window she hands

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Char-lie a sand-wich   as the     train goes rum – blin’ through

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Now, ye cit-i-zens of Bost – on, don’t you think it’s a scand – al

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How the people have to pay and pay.___     Fight the fare in-crease

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Vote for   ------- -------- !  Get poor Char-lie off the M. T. A.