All LU Stations Song/Underground Can-Can

[GuyBarry]

Thanks! I was quite pleased with the way the different lines fitted the different sections of the tune. Sheet music is here if you need it.

I've been working on a 270-station version, but I'm not entirely happy with it yet. In theory they should all fit neatly into two-and-a-half repetitions of the tune (the first part of the melody takes about 60 stations and the second part about 50), but obviously you lose the division into lines.

[Iain]

The stations are not in alphabetical order. They nearly are, but they aren't. For a song titled A-Z I reckon alphabetical order should have been compulsory.

I hope you never buy a London A-Z

[GuyBarry]

The stations are not in alphabetical order. They nearly are, but they aren't. For a song titled A-Z I reckon alphabetical order should have been compulsory.

Does exactly what it says on the tin. The stations are grouped from A to Z. (Maybe I'll try an A-Z version of mine...)

I hope you never buy a London A-Z

I thought that referred to the index, not the map!

[The Orange One]

After over a year since my original attempt at putting the 270 tube stations to the tune of the Major-General's Song/the Elements Song, there are now two songs with up to 267 of the stations in (guess which 3 were left out). These are Tunnel Sounds' A-Z of the Underground and Jay Foreman's song. Taking advantage of the ingenuity of the rhymes used, this is my second attempt at writing a song with all 270 stations. It contains some nice rhymes, some nasty rhymes and some which rhyme, of course, with themselves. The stations start approximately on the Metropolitan Line and end in Zone 1. Technically, the song only contains 268 of them, but I hope you will enjoy!

There's Rickmansworth and Chorleywood and Barbican and Farringdon
and Chesham, Northwood Hills, Chalfont & Latimer and Paddington
and Watford, Northwood, North Harrow, West Harrow, Pinner, Amersham
and Preston Road and Chancery Lane, South Harrow, Ruislip, Alperton.
There's Uxbridge, Eastcote, Ruislip Manor, Sudbury Town and Northwick Park
and Ealing Common, Ealing Broadway, Sudbury Hill and Chiswick Park
and Hillingdon and Ickenham and Boston Manor, Acton Town...
and Hampstead, Chalk Farm, Brent Cross, Burnt Oak, Belsize Park and Camden Town.
There's Park Royal and North Ealing and South Ealing and Northfields
and Putney Bridge, WImbledon Park and WImbledon and Southfields
and Hounslow West and Hounslow East and Hounslow Central, Osterley
and Heathrow Terminals 4 and 5 and Heathrow Terminals 123.

There's Hatton Cross and Turnham Green, Kew Gardens, Richmond, Gunnersbury
and Ravenscourt Park, Borough, Southwark, Stamford Brook and Bermondsey
and Kensington Olympia, Barons Court and High Street Kensington
and Brixton, Stockwell, Vauxhall, Oval, Pimlico and Kennington.
There's Clapham Common, Clapham South and Clapham North and Lambeth North
and Wembley Park, Canada Water, Canning Town, Canary Wharf
and Elephant & Castle, Balham, Waterloo and Westminster...
Elm Park, Dagenham Heathway, Hornchurch, Upminster Bridge, Upminster.
There's Fulham Broadway, Parsons Green, West Kensington and East Putney,
West Brompton, Barking, Earl's Court, Upton Park, Dagenham East, Upney
and West Ham, East Ham, Plaistow, Bow Road, Bromley-by-Bow, Becontree,
West Acton, Shepherd's Bush, North Acton, East Acton and White City.

There's Ruislip Gardens, South Ruislip, West Ruislip, Northolt, Hanger Lane
and Tooting Broadway, Colliers Wood, South Wimbledon and Rayners Lane
and Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush Market, Morden, Greenford, Perivale,
Wood Lane, Latimer Road, Moor Park and Ladbroke Grove and Maida Vale.
There's Westbourne Park and Royal Oak and Tooting Bec and Edgware Road
and Kilburn Park and Paddington and Holland Park and Edgware Road,
South Kenton, Warwick Avenue, North Greenwich, Kenton, Kensal Green...
and Whitechapel and Aldgate East and Stepney Green and Bethnal Green.
There's Stonebridge Park, Harrow & Wealdstone, Harlesden, Kilburn, North Wembley
and Queen's Park, Neasden, Wembley Central, Canons Park and Queensbury
and Angel, Old Street, Hendon Central, Golders Green and London Bridge
and Stanmore, Croxley, Kingsbury, Willesden Green, West Hampstead, Swiss Cottage.

There's Willesden Junction, St John's Wood, Great Portland Street and Hammersmith
and Finchley Road and Bank, Sloane Square, Mornington Crescent, Hammersmith
and Notting Hill Gate, Queensway, Bond Street, Bayswater and Dollis Hill
and Epping, Debden, Loughton, Woodford, Theydon Bois and Buckhurst Hill.
There's Roding Valley, Chigwell, Grange Hill, Hainault, Fairlop, Newbury Park
and Highbury & Islington, Walthamstow Central, Finsbury Park
and Wanstead, Redbridge, Gants Hill, Snaresbrook, Barkingside and Leytonstone...
and Seven Sisters, Blackhorse Road, South Woodford, Leyton, Marylebone.
There's Cockfosters and Arnos Grove and Oakwood, Southgate, Tottenham Hale
and Bounds Green, Wood Green, Turnpike Lane and Manor House and Colindale,
High Barnet, Totteridge & Whetstone, Stratford, Euston, Euston Square
and Archway, Highgate, West Finchley, East Finchley, Mill Hill East, Edgware.

There's Finchley Central, Mile End, Caledonian Road and Arsenal
and Woodside Park and Tufnell Park, Holloway Road, Blackfriars, Temple
and Kentish Town, St James's Park, King's Cross St Pancras, Monument
and Cannon Street and Mansion House and Tower Hill and Embankment.
There's Lancaster Gate, Liverpool Street, Knightsbridge, Charing Cross, Moorgate
and Harrow-on-the-Hill, Green Park, Tottenham Court Road, St Paul's, Aldgate
and Baker Street and Gloucester Road and Hyde Park Corner, Leicester Square...
and Marble Arch and Holborn, Goodge Street, South Kensington, Russell Square.
There's Regent's Park and Covent Garden, Warren Street, Victoria
and Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus.

In Laboria:

There's Watford Junction, Watford High Street, Vicarage Road and Cassiobridge,
and there's Nine Elms and Battersea on the south side of Chelsea Bridge.

These are the only current stations on the London Underground
and there are many more on NR, DLR and Overground.


Enjoy saying it quickly!

[RobbieM]

Well I suppose it had to happen eventually...

The Underground Can-Can

So if I were to find the opportunity to try giving this a public performance, do I have permission?

[GuyBarry]

Thanks to RobbieM for pointing out a few duplications and omissions in my earlier version of the "Underground Can-Can". Here's the revised version and I'll be delighted if he can give it a performance!


1st time (without coda)

Amersham and Chorleywood and Rickmansworth and Northwood Hills,
Northwick Park and Preston Road and Chesham, Watford, Croxley, Pinner,
Wembley Park and Finchley Road, North Harrow and Great Portland Street,
Euston Square, King's Cross St Pancras, Barbican and Baker Street.
Liverpool Street! Moorgate, Aldgate, Farringdon.
Ruislip Manor! Ickenham and Hillingdon.
And West Harrow! Uxbridge, Eastcote, Rayners Lane.
Moor Park, Northwood! Chalfont (joined with Latimer), and Ruislip, and we end the Met with Harrow-on-the-Hill.

[...the Metropolitan, and now the Bakerloo...]

Let's start! Piccadilly Circus, Elephant and Castle, Regent's Park, Embankment, Harlesden, Kenton,
Charing Cross, Lambeth North and Oxford Circus, Kilburn Park, South Kenton, Stonebridge Park and Waterloo.
Queen's Park, Kensal Green and Wembley Central, Willesden Junction, Baker Street, North Wembley, Maida Vale and Edgware Road, Paddington and Harrow (teaming up with Wealdstone), Marylebone, and Warwick Avenue.

Perivale and Hanger Lane and Holland Park and Shepherd's Bush,
Oxford Circus, Chancery Lane and Epping, Debden, Loughton, Chigwell,
Greenford and North Acton and East Acton and West Acton too,
Leytonstone, Newbury Park, Buckhurst Hill, Theydon Bois,
Barkingside, Bethnal Green, Marble Arch,
Ruislip Gardens, Ealing Broadway, Roding Valley...
Bank! Tottenham Court Road, West Ruislip and South Woodford, Snaresbrook, Leyton, Woodford, Wanstead, Stratford and Mile End, Hainault, Fairlop, Redbridge, Liverpool Street, Bond Street, Queensway, Northolt, Holborn and St Paul's.
Gants Hill, then Lancaster Gate, South Ruislip and White City, Notting Hill Gate, then Grange Hill and that's the Central.
Next, Waterloo and City, it's a simple ditty, Waterloo and Bank and those are all.


2nd time (without coda)

Acton Town and Chiswick Park and Turnham Green and Stamford Brook,
Wimbledon and Wimb'don Park, Earl's Court, East Putney, Richmond, Southfields,
Gunnersbury and Parsons Green, Kew Gardens and West Kensington,
Putney Bridge and Gloucester Road and Edgware Road and Paddington.
Ealing Broadway! Kensington Olympia.
Fulham Broadway! Hammersmith, Victoria.
Ealing Common! Barons Court, South Kensington.
Ravenscourt Park! Westminster, Embankment, High Street Kensington, Blackfriars, Mansion House and Tower Hill.

[...and some of these are on the Circle line as well...]

Sloane Square, Monument, St James's Park, Mile End and Temple, Stepney Green and Cannon Street, West Ham and Upton Park, Aldgate East and Barking, Upney, Dag'nham Heathway, Becontree and Bromley-just-by-Bow.
Elm Park, Upminster and Hornchurch, Dag'nham East and Plaistow, Notting Hill Gate, Bayswater, Bow Road, Upminster Bridge, Whitechapel, East Ham, West Brompton ends the District, there are no more stations left to go.

Tooting Broadway, Tooting Bec, South Wimbledon and Colliers Wood,
Clapham North and Clapham South and Morden, Balham, Stockwell, Oval,
Goodge Street, Euston, Leicester Square, Embankment, Moorgate, Warren Street,
Kennington, Waterloo, Charing Cross, London Bridge,
Camden Town, Kentish Town, Tufnell Park,
Clapham Common, Hendon Central, Finchley Central,
Bank, Totteridge and Whetstone, Elephant and Castle, Borough, Belsize Park, King's Cross St Pancras, Golders Green, Highgate and East Finchley, Colindale and Hampstead, Old Street, Woodside Park and Mill Hill East.
Burnt Oak, Angel and Chalk Farm, West Finchley and High Barnet, Tottenham Court Road and Archway, Edgware and Brent Cross, finally the Crescent - Mornington - that's pleasant, telling us the Northern line has ceased.


3rd time (with coda)

Hammersmith and Goldhawk Road and Royal Oak and Ladbroke Grove,
Westbourne Park and Lat'mer Road, Wood Lane and Shepherd's Bush (the Market),
Paddington and Edgware Road and stations east of Baker Street,
Hammersmith and City's done - the rest is just a straight repeat.
Seven Sisters! Blackhorse Road and Pimlico.
Oxford Circus! Central station (Walthamstow).
Vauxhall, Stockwell! Highbury and Islington.
Euston, Brixton! Warren Street, Victoria, Green Park, King's Cross St Pancras, Tott'nham Hale and Finsbury Park.

[...and that's Victoria, and now the Jubilee...]

West Ham, Bermondsey and Stratford, Canning Town and Southwark, London Bridge, Canary Wharf, North Greenwich, Waterloo, Westminster and Bond Street, Baker Street and then Swiss Cottage, Finchley Road and Saint John's Wood.
Green Park, Kilburn and West Hampstead, Willesden Green and Neasden, Kingsbury and Queensbury and Stanmore, Canons Park, Wembley Park and Dollis Hill, Canada Water, finishing the Jubilee for good.

Heathrow Term'nals 1,2,3 and Hatton Cross and Osterley,
Ruislip Manor, Sudbury Hill and Uxbridge, Eastcote, Ruislip, Northfields,
Covent Garden, Hyde Park Corner, Gloucester Road and Leicester Square,
Ickenham, Alperton, Acton Town, Hillingdon,
Hounslow West, Hounslow East, Turnham Green,
Hounslow Central, Boston Manor, Heathrow Term'nal...
4! Piccadilly Circus, Barons Court and Knightsbridge, Russell Square, South Harrow and North Ealing, Rayners Lane, Hammersmith and Holborn, Caledonian Road, South Kensington and Heathrow Term'nal 5.
Green Park, Southgate and Cockfosters, Arnos Grove and Oakwood, Turnpike Lane, Wood Green, King's Cross St Pancras, Finsbury Park, Arsenal and Bounds Green, Park Royal, Holl'way Road, South Ealing and Earl's Court.
And Ealing Common, Manor House and Sudbury Town.
Those are the stations of the London Underground.

[That was the Piccadilly, Piccadilly, Piccadilly, Piccadilly, Piccadilly, Piccadilly...]

The stations of the Underground! The stations of the Underground! The Underground, the Underground! The Und - er - ground!

[RobbieM]

Performance hopefully going to happen at the end of the month... will report back.

[RobbieM]

The difficulty is finding time to breathe!

Therefore there may be some breaks, and changes to the pace. But the unbracketted words and notes should all be there and in the right order.

[RobbieM]

Underground Can-Can performance due within the next three hours, if my fingers, arms and lungs hold out...

[GuyBarry]

Underground Can-Can performance due within the next three hours, if my fingers, arms and lungs hold out...

Did you manage it?

[RobbieM]

Did you manage it?

SUCCESS!!!!

...but I'm absolutely washed out. It went down a storm, it really did!!! There were about 100 in the audience, who really got into the spirit of it! It was the penultimate event in a variety show programme, preceding a fundraising promise auction.

Now, all being well, I should be able to post a recording sometime soon. However, I discovered that my primary cameraman's recording system dropped out after 8 minutes, but I think someone else has managed to record the whole thing on his phone (from a different part of the auditorium). I have not yet seen or heard how the two recordings came out, but I'm sure that it'll at least give the gist of the event.

So hopefully we should be able to take the best bits of both of them, and mix them, and post them. Watch this space!

Oh, and I hope you don't mind, but I gave the notes I used to the auction afterwards - signed and dated - and with your name credited on them. And they raised an extra £10!

Now I need to go home and sleep it off, I guess.... Will be in touch.

[GuyBarry]

Wow, that's brilliant! I've never heard one of my songs performed in public since I was at school. (I once wrote a song about the routes of the first thirty A-roads, and someone performed it in a folk club, but I never got to hear a recording.) Glad it all went well and I'm pleased to have been able to raise some extra cash. You must be exhausted!

[RobbieM]

...and still alive the following day. Blood pressure/adrenalin levels getting back to normal!

I should be getting a couple of CDs with the files on soon - assuming I can paste them together, I hope to have the whole thing. I hear the first one ran out just around the Piccadilly Line starting, so as that's the final one, most of it's there. I hope the grand finale exists on the other recording though!

[RobbieM]

I have now received both recordings - and between them we have managed to record the total thing. So I'll get to work when I have a moment or two to spare. (But these moments are a bit elusive at the moment....)

[RobbieM]

Okay it's ready, and now posted in a new thread: http://www.tubeforum.co.uk/forum/index. ... pic#p81720