Rhapsodies

I’ve always liked folk music. Growing up my father used to play his guitar and banjo to us and he had an extensive collection of folk records including Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary as well as the Kingston Trio.

I was reminded of the Kingston Trio today. While they weren’t my favorites, they had a few songs I like such as the Anne Boleyn song (which was nearly traumatic when I first heard it at age eight.) and this one, the MTA song which my Father used to like but couldn’t get some of the final chords right. I always liked it too, mostly due to the absurdity of this musical tall tale.

Of course as I got older a recurring question kind of spoiled it for me… Why didn’t Charlie’s wife give him train fair along with his daily sandwich?