Alternately titled The MTA Song, in reference to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (renamed the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 1964).
This song about the Boston Red Line railway was written by Tom in 1944. He performed this live during an interview on WTBS, the MIT radio station, wh...
H is for my alma mater, Harvard
C is Central, next stop on the line
K is for the cozy Kendall station
C is Charles that overlooks the brine
P is Park Str- Pahk Street, busy Boston center
W is Washington, you see
Put them all together, they spell:
"HCKC-PW!"
Which is just about what Boston means to me!
Tom-lehrer released The Subway Song on Sat Jan 01 1944.