They borrowed the tunes from two old folk songs, "The Ship That Never Returned" and "Wreck of the Old 97," and wrote new lyrics about a hapless Everycommuter named Charlie who rides the train endlessly because he can't pay the nickel exit fare.
With well over 6,500 signatures already, the petition states, "Athletes train endlessly, have trainers, coaches, hard schedules to keep, many competitions and a true dedication to their goal of winning a gold metal.
Training endlessly, he told me years later that he found it hard, endless, but became incredibly fit.
Elena Nikitina, one of three loudly backed Russians in the field, had enjoyed the advantage of training endlessly on the Sanki track in the runup to the Games.
If Ms. Chupack and her husband do raise a family, their children would probably be happier with a secure, creative Jewish identity than with "arbitrary rules" or a train chugging endlessly around a tree.
Images of the sub-human treatment and deaths of Kenyans, mostly from the opposition (CORD Party), at the hands of fellow Kenyans -- police and paramilitary (GSU) forces -- sporting the latest anti-riot gear but sans the requisite training looped endlessly on TV monitors across the world.
They dream of automated trains running endlessly along the 1,800 miles (2,880km) between the strip-mines of the Powder River Basin and Georgia's Plant Scherer, the world's largest coal-fired power station.
By B. Stavis and E. B. White The New Yorker, October 10 , 1942P. 9 As the German legions move steadily up to the Russian lines & the hospital trains roll endlessly home, loaded with the living remains of men, our thoughts go back to the comforting words of Professor Kunz, Rector Extraordinary of a Berlin University, who explained this process to the orderly minds of his countrymen.
They train for it endlessly, and organize their Expeditionary Units around the Battalion Landing Team.
Foolishly, I ended up on a slow train, which stopped endlessly along the way and made this Midlands city seem even farther from my home turf.
The troupe toured the United States endlessly by train in the 1930s and '40s.
