JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "M.T.A." adalah lagu The Kingston Trio yang telah dirilis sejak 1959.
Lagu ini tergabung dalam albumnya yang bertajuk The Kingston Trio at Large yang dirilis di bawah naungan label Capitol Records.
Album tersebut mendapat penghargaan dari Grammy untuk kategori Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording pada 1959.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "M.T.A." dari The Kingston Trio.
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Let me tell you of a story 'bout a man named Charlie
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On a tragic and fateful day.
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He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family,
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Went to ride on the M T A.
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But will he ever return? No he'll never return,
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And his fate is still unlearned.
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He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston,
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He's the man who never returned.
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Charlie handed in his dime at the Scollay Square Station,
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And he changed for Jamaica Plain.
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When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel!"
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Charlie couldn't get off of that train.
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Now all night long Charlie rides through the stations,
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Crying, "What will become of me?
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How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsea,
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Or my brother in Roxbury?"
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Charlie's wife goes down to the Scollay Square Station,
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Every day at a quarter past two.
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And through the open window she hands Charlie his sandwich
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As the train goes rumbling through.
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Now you citizens of Boston, don't you think it's a scandal,
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How the people have to pay and pay?
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Fight the fare increase, vote for George O'Brien,
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Get poor Charlie off the M T A!