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# first verse
- holt and kingston both have a pre-chorus introduction, though it differs between the two
- kingston prepends "well" to the first line
- holt and kingston replace "dark and fateful" with "tragic and fateful"
- holt and kingston replace "loving family" with "wife and family"
- holt and kingston remove "and"s on lines 3 and 4, and add "on" after "ride" on line 4
# chorus
- holt and kingston prefix the first line with a preposition. holt always uses "but", kingston changes the preposition between choruses
- kingston adds a backing vocal with various short lines between each second and third line
# second verse
- steiner replaces "handed in his dime" with "put in his dime"
- dreier replaces "and he changed" for "then he changed", steiner replaces it with "made a change"
- dreier, steiner, and holt replace "off the train" with "off that train", kingston replaces it with "off-a that train"
# interlude: verse ordering and droppedness
- transit and dreier order the middle three verses as "greater boston", "all night long", then "i can't help"
- original has "greater boston" then "all night long", and drops "i can't help"
- steiner has "all night long", "i can't help", then "greater boston"
- holt and kingston have "all night long" and drop the other two
# transit-third verse ("greater boston")
- original replaces "train" with "car"
- steiner replaces "through greater boston" with "to greater boston"
- original drops "well," before "i'm sore and disgusted"
# transit-fourth verse ("all night long")
- original replaces "charlie rides" with "charlie rolls", transit replaces it with "charlie rode"
- transit replaces "tunnel" with "tunnels", kingston replaces it with "station", original may potentially have pluralized "tunnel" as well, but likely didn't
- kingston replaces "saying" with "crying"
- original and transit prefix the third line with "oh", dreier and steiner prefix it with "and", bolt and kingston don't prefix it at all
- holt and kingston replace "brother" with "cousin"
# transit-fifth verse ("i can't help")
- steiner replaces "the nickels and dimes" with "the nickels and the dimes"
# interlude: third chorus
- steiner, holt, and kingston have a chorus before the scollay square verse
- original doesn't
- transit and dreier don't have choruses marked
# sixth verse
- original replaces "goes down" with "comes down"
- holt and kingston remove "a" before "quarter past two"
- holt and kingston replace "his train goes" with "the train comes"
- steiner replaces "rumbling" with "a-rumbling"
# seventh verse
- holt and kingston replace "now citizens" with "now you citizens"
- holt and kingston replace "it is a scandal" with "it's a scandal"
- original and transit replace "vote for" with "join"
- original replaces "and fight" with "to fight", holt and kingston replace it with just "fight"
- (unedited) holt replaces "walter a" with "walter j", kingston replaces it with "george"
- kingston swaps "fight the fare increase" and "vote for george o'brien"
- holt replaces "poor charlie" with just "charlie"
- holt and kingston replace "that mta" with "the mta"
# cadenza: fourth chorus
- original has an unmodified chorus following the seventh verse
- steiner doesn't
- holt and kingston have modified choruses following the seventh verse
- transit and dreier still don't have choruses marked