Trivia; the Southern commuter songbook

[61653 HTAFC]

Surely:

Part of the Union - Strawbs

Or even There Is Power in a Union by Billy Bragg...

 

[DarloRich]

Or even There Is Power in a Union by Billy Bragg...

i give up - another open goal missed!

 

[infobleep]

There is also
Hey Western Union Man by Jerry Butter that could be retitled,
Hey ASLEF Union Man.


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[61653 HTAFC]

i give up - another open goal missed!

It only occurred to me upon seeing your post - so you get the assist!

Let's see what else I can contribute...

If I haven't already said it, Waiting Room by Fugazi.
Epic Problem by Fugazi.
A Song for Departure by Manic Street Preachers.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel (is NOT the light of an oncoming train) by Half Man Half Biscuit.
4 Ever Delayed by Manic Street Preachers.
I'm Not Working (because of the strike) by Manic Street Preachers.
Transport Is(n't) Arranged by Pavement.
Platform Blues by Pavement.
Stay Where You Are by Sleater-Kinney.
Home I'll Never Be by Tom Waits.

 

[infobleep]

The Time Wait - The Govia Horror Show
With a cover version by The Southern Horror Show.

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[Cowley]

Govia West - The train of wishful thinking

 

[Busaholic]

Bob Dylan again, from the seminal 'Highway 61 Revisited' album:-

song title is It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes A Train to Cry


The last two lines are
Don't Say I Never Warned You
When Your Train Gets Lost

 

[Traveller54]

Apologies if this has already been posted:
Nancy Whiskey "Freight train, freight train, going so fast (because there are no passenger trains in the way!)"

 

[Cowley]

Two songs by The Commuternards -

Don't leave me this way (unable to get to work).
I never can say goodbye (because I'm stuck at the station).

 

[infobleep]

Driverless Train by Barbecue Bob and cover versions by Eric Clapton and Geoff Muldaur.

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[DarloRich]

Everybody Talks - Neon Trees

 

[Cowley]

Everybody Talks - Neon Trees

Everybody Hurts - REMT

 

[krus_aragon]

Please release me door Guv'nor - Englebert Humperdink

 

[infobleep]

Please Mr Horton (run my train tonight remix) by the Marvelettes

Why don't you run my train tonight? by Nine Below Zero

Going Down Town Tonight (no I'm not train cancelled edit) by Status Quo

Can't be run by Status Quo

Dirty tactics by Status Quo

Can't Give You a train service by Status Quo
Or
Can't Give You Guarantees also by Status Quo

Get out and Walk by Status Quo

Beginning of the End by Status Quo

No Train by Status Quo

Delayed Again by Status Quo

No train Again, Let's Cry by Bob Marley
Or
No Train Again, let's Sigh by Bob Marley



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[Busaholic]

Sound of Silence

 

[backontrack]

The commuters' song (with apologies to Gloria Gaynor)

At first, I was delayed
I was left behind
Kept thinking I couldn't commute however hard I tried
But then I spent so many nights
On the benches at Epsom
Became less strong
And learned how you can't get along

And so I'm at
Crystal Palace
My train stopped and we were turfed off miles away from the right place
I should have travelled there by bus,
I should have travelled there by plane,
And I would have murdered someone to get off this Southern train

So Go-Ahead, and shut the door
Kick off the guards now, for you don't need them anymore
When the DfT gave the Southern franchise to Govia
Did they know you'd crumble,
Did they think we'd all end up here?

But I'll defy
I will survive
Oh, as long as we're protesting, there's a chance to stay alive
We've all lost the will to live
We've got nothing left to give
But we'll survive
We will survive

Hey, hey
We will survive
Through the delays and cancellations, our campaigning will be live
Though your services you've skipped,
GTR can still be stripped
Of the franchise
So we'll survive
We will survive

 

[Cowley]

That must've took a while.

 

[backontrack]

That must've took a while.

Indeed. Pitifully long considering how most of the lyrics don't scan.
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Bob Dylan - Like a completely stationary stone

 

[Cowley]

Two out of three trains ain't bad - Meatloaf

 

[infobleep]

B. B. King - Three O'Clock Blues (they've cancelled my train yet again).

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[Busaholic]

Can't think how this one escaped me;-

Days of Purley Spencer

Days of Pearly Spencer by David McWilliam must have been the second most-played record on the original (and best, overall, imo) pirate radio station Caroline. 'Caroline' by the Fortunes was the most-played by a country mile, but the radio station's owner Ronan O'Rahilly got it into his head that he could be the new Brian Epstein and McWilliam was to be his Billy J Kramer, if not John Lennon. I guess the record was played more times than total copies sold. McWilliam, an Irishman like O'Rahilly, faded without trace.

There's also a song that has a verse 'open up them Purley gates and I'll go chasing women' whose name escapes me.

 

[yorksrob]

Can't think how this one escaped me;-

Days of Purley Spencer

Days of Pearly Spencer by David McWilliam must have been the second most-played record on the original (and best, overall, imo) pirate radio station Caroline. 'Caroline' by the Fortunes was the most-played by a country mile, but the radio station's owner Ronan O'Rahilly got it into his head that he could be the new Brian Epstein and McWilliam was to be his Billy J Kramer, if not John Lennon. I guess the record was played more times than total copies sold. McWilliam, an Irishman like O'Rahilly, faded without trace.

There's also a song that has a verse 'open up them Purley gates and I'll go chasing women' whose name escapes me.

A cracking good song though. Often put it on the juke box.

 

[Jonny]

No [Southern] train to Southampton Central?

As in KLF - Last Train To Transcentral...

 

[Class 319]

Please, Release Me.

 

[Busaholic]

Please, Release Me.

No driver to unlock the doors?

 

[infobleep]

Another one's cancelled again by Queen.

Another one's cancelled agian
Another one's cancelled agian
And another one's gone
And another one's gone
Another one's cancelled agian


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Status Quo have a song called, Calling the Shots. Perhaps the Department for Transport could do a cover of it!

Dave Stewart had a song on his 2012 album, Ring Master General, called Story of Secess. Well GTR would have to call it:
Story of Failure.

Some more off the album:
* Slow motion delays no X (where X equals infinity remix).
* Drowning in delays.
* You Took my Evening
* I Got Delays
* Just Another Delay

Chorus
Just another delay, baby,
On the way back home.
Another lack of staff, baby,
Well I guess I should have known
We could have been on time, baby,
If it wasn't for GTR, grone
Just another delay baby
On my way back home.

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[Busaholic]

The 6.5 Special's coming down the line
The 6.5 Special's right on time

(Stand back from the edge of the platform - fast train approaching. Ha ha, got you there, it's all a figment of your imaginations)

 

[Class 319]

No driver to unlock the doors?

No driver to drive the train at all