[Street] re Occupy the 'T' Campaign

Aria Littlhous aria at littlhous.net
Sat Jan 14 21:26:46 EST 2012


I'll be at GA on Sunday night making a few CASA related annoucements and
will be keeping CASA informed of the MBTA actions. I've started trying to
re-write Charlie on the MBTA, but it's pretty hard, not just from a
composition view point, but all from a "what's the point" point...what does
OB think is causing the MBTA's problems...sorry Joseph, I haven't read your
entire flier....maybe something a little less wordy, that makes just one or
two points would help generally and with the song...which I will now
through to the CASA wolves/wordsmiths.
*
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*
*
*Let me tell you the story
Of scheme name Profit
On sneaky and low down day
Some guy said he’d help you
So he rounded up his Doctors
and went down to the MTA

Let me tell you the story
Of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten bil’ in his pocket,
because insurance isn’t free
Went to ride on the MTA
Charlie handed in his dime
At the Kendall Square Station
And he changed for Jamaica Plain

When he got there the conductor told him,
the fat cats need a bigger salary
Charlie could not get off that train.
Chorus:
                   Did they ever learn?
                    No he never returned

No they never did learned
                    And his fate is still unlearn'd
 you pay the devil
when you pay fallon, harvard, pilgrim...
                    He may ride forever
                    'neath the streets of Boston
                    He's the man who never returned.
Now all night long
Charlie rides through the tunnels
                             the station
Saying, "What will become of me?
Crying
How can I afford to see
My sister in Chelsea
Or my cousin in Roxbury?"
Charlie's wife goes down
To the Scollay Square station
Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window
She hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumblin' through.
As his train rolled on
underneath Greater Boston
Charlie looked around and sighed:
"Well, I'm sore and disgusted
And I'm absolutely busted;
I guess this is my last long ride."
{this entire verse was replaced by a banjo solo}
Now you citizens of Boston,
Don't you think it's a scandal
That the people have to pay and pay
Vote for Walter A. O'Brien
Fight the fare increase!
And fight the fare increase
Vote for George O'Brien!
Get poor Charlie off the MTA.
Chorus:
Or else he'll never return,
No he'll never return
And his fate will be unlearned
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man (Who's the man)
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man (Oh, the man)
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man who never returned.*

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, brett <brett at occupyboston.org> wrote:

> *Point of Information*
> *
> *
> the term "Charlie Card" originates from a song (see site below) about a
> man named Charlie who gets stuck on the subway. The song was originally
> recorded as a mayoral campaign song for Progressive Party<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1948)>
>  candidate Walter A. O'Brien<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_A._O%27Brien>
> . Maybe this can inform some people's ideas for protesting.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.T.A.
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Ridgely Fuller <ridgelyfuller at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks..
>> .I thought the T riders U mtg last night was really good ( though left at
>> 7:30) and it doesn't seem to me, at least up until I left that OB would be
>> stepping on anyon orgs. toes by initiating Free Charlie strategy...i am
>> wondering whether 'street' should offer that up as an initial Action idea
>> at this Sunday's Action Summit..that way we might get all workgroups
>> working on the campaign in their own way..eg we wouldn't have to have our
>> few members go to CASA ..we could get CASA right there on Sunday night and
>> ask them to consider our ideas but come up their own..same for media..etc
>> etc..'street' might then have more of a coordinating role among groups on
>> the Free Charlie Strategy rather than have to round up all the resources
>> and do all the wrok ourselves..seems like an easy way to get all of OB
>> involved in this really exciting idea..one of the things I liked best about
>> the TRU mtg was the incredible diversity..age,ethnicity,city/suburb......etc
>> if you all like the idea of it being part of OB action summit this Sunday
>> at 5, maybe we should get together at 4 to see what components it might
>> have and how we would help organiize it..i really want these Action
>> Sunday's to work!!!!!
>>  Ridgely
>>
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