A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

MTA(Mobile Line) Lyrics
Saturday, April 19, 2008
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Well hey mama now did you ever go down on
Down on the MTA
Hey lordy mama, mama, hey lordy papa, papa
Down on the MTA
The Metro North is the train that'll take you away

The Metro North that runs the big silver trains
Hey lordy mama, mama, hey lordy papa, papa
Runs the big silver trains
Takes you to Bronxville, Scarsdale and White Plains

Valhalla, Mt. Pleasant, Hawthorne and Pleasantville
Golden Bridge, Katonah and Bedford Hills
Got to get a train, Mama, I beg your pardon
Ride it to Harlem and the New York Botanical Garden

Well if you got a lover in Chappequa or Croton Falls
Hey lordy mama, mama, hey lordy papa, papa
Chappaqua or Croton Falls
You better be at the station when the conductor calls

Now when I die mama don't you do a thing
Hey lordy mama, mama, hey lordy papa, papa
Mama don't do a thing
Just put me on a train, send me up to Ossining

And when I die mama put me on the railroad line
Hey lordy mama, mama, hey lordy papa, papa
Put me on the railroad line
Don't want to go to heaven but New Haven will be fine

And when I die I wanna ride the Metro North
Hey lordy mama, mama, hey lordy papa, papa
Wanna ride the Metro North
Get on the train and ride it back and forth