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+====== Charlie [Baker] on the MBTA ======
+===== (73rd anniversary edition) =====
+Tune: //Charlie on the MTA//
+[The author of these lyrics is anonymous by choice but has granted permission to share them.]
+First performed 8.10.22 on the Orange Line platform at Back Bay Station
+with Jacob Deck on Celtic harp, Ben Rechel on Bass, Anna Seda on Cello
+Lyrics by a local friend that wished to remain anonymous
+Let me tell you a story ‘bout a man named Charlie on a tragic and fateful day
+He got driven to his office, gave a speech and took some photos
+Then he shut down the MTA
+//Will it ever return?  May it ever return!
+But its fate is still unlearned
+We may crawl forever through the streets of Boston
+But our train may never return//
+If you’re in Back Bay and you gotta get to Malden or from Cambridge to Jamaica Plain
+Hope you’ve got four wheels or a couple extra hours
+‘Cause you won’t get there on the train!  (Learn to swim!)
+//Will it ever return?  May it ever return!
+But its fate is still unlearned
+We may crawl forever through the streets of Boston
+But our train may never return//
+So the old orange line and the Green Line Extension
+Are both shut for a month it’s true (OR MORE!)
+And the way things are going we can probably be certain
+That they’ll shut down the Red Line too!
+//Will it ever return?  May it ever return!
+But its fate is still unlearned
+We may crawl forever through the streets of Boston
+But our train may never return//
+//[Instrumental Break]//
+Now you citizens of Boston don’t you think that it’s a scandal Charlie skips traffic ev’ry day
+Someone bribe his chauffeur, stick a needle in his tires
+and put Charlie on the MTA {for legal reasons it’s a joke}
+//Will it ever return?  IT HAD BETTER RETURN!
+But its fate is still unlearned
+We may crawl forever through the streets of Boston
+But our train may never return
+But our train may never return//