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# lyrics to M.T.A. as written in "Did He Ever Return?: The Forgotten Story of Charlie and the M.T.A.", by Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel, with punctuation normalized to match the version from Boston in Transit (2023) let me tell you the story of a man named charlie on a dark and fateful day he put ten cents in his pocket and he kissed his loving family and he went to ride the mta. [chorus] did he ever return? no, he never returned and his fate is still unlearned he may ride forever 'neath the streets of boston he's the man who never returned. charlie handed in his dime at the kendall square station, then he changed for jamaica plain when he got there the conductor told him, 'one more nickel' charlie couldn't get off that train. as his train rolled on through 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." now all night long charlie rides through the tunnel saying, "what will become of me? and, how can i afford to see my sister in chelsea or my brother in roxbury?" "i can't help," said the conductor "i'm just working for a living but i sure agree with you for the nickels and dimes you'll be spending in boston you'd be better off in timbuktu." charlie's wife goes down to the scollay square station every day at a quarter past two and through the open window she hands charlie a sandwich as his train goes rumbling through. now, citizens of boston, don't you think it is a scandal that the people have to pay and pay? vote for walter a. o’brien and fight the fare increase get poor charlie off that mta!