Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for September 05, 2014

Did he ever return, No he never returned And his fate is still unlearned…

I asked that question the first time I heard the song

Thanks for the comments, here! We Australians in Germany don’t have a clue sometimes…

To Barney and Cynthia, who didn’t get it either, he sounds like he just had a senile episode.

It should be pretty obvious – she’s having an affair and doesn’t want him to get off the train!

one of my favorite songs

since I was 6, I’ve always thought that too. Kind of a big plot whole.

Don’t forget the Merry Minuet. Amazing how relevant it is. Just change that nationalities…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQdHiOpGJF0

Yeah, if I had the option I think my wife might get the sandwich too.

yeah, but then Charlie wouldn’t ride forever through the streets of Boston

I was about three years old, and one day the train that passed through a field behind our house stopped an a man got off the caboose. My mother exclaimed, “Look! They let Charlie off the MTA!”

You don’t have to live in Australia! I live in the USA, and I am at a loss..Over today’s strip, that is…

It a song called, " MTA" by the Kingston Trio about a guy who couldn’t leave the subway. It was a novelry song from decades ago.

My late Mother asked the same question back about 1958!

I had a similar problem with the New York City Transit Authority from the mid 1950’s to the mid 1970’s. I had lived in the Rockaways in Queens. The subway came to the Rockaways and charged us two tokens to get in and one token to get out.

The song MTA was a mayoral election song written in1949 in protest of a fare increase. Made into a hit by the Kingston Trio in 1959

only people of a certain age would know what this is about. it took me a minute to connect it to the song.

It was a protest song. They were protesting the new way of doing the fare where you paid part at the beginning and the rest when you got off, or something like that. I’m not from Boston so I don’t remember the details.

I’ve always figured it could only be that she didn’t have the spare nickel.

And I’ve also wondered who George O’Brian was (see Wikipedia entry for “M.T.A.”).

That song used to really creep me to out…