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Kingston Trio - M. T. A.

A CLASSIC B&W TV performance featuring Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds telling the story of Charlie...the man who NEVER returned!  
 
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RodeosMom (2 days ago) Show Hide
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My dad played 8tracks of KT on road trips...love these songs!
1Davidz (5 days ago) Show Hide
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think about it: it's a prophetic song. we're all on that MTA bus, don't have a nickel to get off, trapped in the mess made by politicians. we can't pay to get off, but we have to pay to get off. and whoever we pay, they own us, just like someone paid for Obama to win, and he owns them. it's scary. those groups knew how to place the hidden message below the happy-go-lucky lyrics, which was part of the true art of the '60s.
jerryg1964 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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That's a nice interpretation, but it has nothing to do with the song. The co-writer Bess Lomax Hawes died recently and her obit mentioned the origins of MTA. It was written in response to an actual Boston subway fare increase as a campaign song for mayoral candidate Walter O'Brien Jr. (whose name was fictionalized a little bit by the time the KT recorded because he was considered to be a red). As for the true art of the 60s, the song was written around 1949 and this version came out around 1959.
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if the wife could hand charlie a sandwhich could she had him another nickel =\
sjaeckh (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I sang this at camp...we always yelled "and through the open window she hands CHARLIE A NICKEL!" as the train goes rumblin' through...the happier version
UpThePunx87 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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these guys were punk before punk was.
Ofarimlover (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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ahhhh those WERE THE DAYS....an original lover of the fab Kingslington boys as Bud and Travis joshed....Saw them several times and had all the albums up to 21...then moved ON.
Jaybird1103 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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It is a tenor guitar, made by Martin. A few years later, Nick Reynolds, the one playing the tenor guitar and singing, got another one and had his old one retrofitted to make an 8-stringed tenor guitar.
GrossmeisterD (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Best version of the song that I've ever heard was the one from the tv series "Malcolm in the Middle". =)
civicness (1 year ago) Show Hide
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That was an amzing version. I saw that!

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