The Tube Challenger's Christmas Carol Book

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I will pick up where The Orange One left off and rewrite the Cascada version of Wham!'s Last Christmas (because the Cascada version is a lot better!)

Cascada - Last District

Oh.... ooh.... yeah...

Last District,
the train to Ken O,
it was very late and
the station was banned.

This year,
to save me from tears,
I'll take an earlier service (service).

Last District,
the train to Ken O,
it was very late and
the station was banned.

This year,
to save me from tears,
I'll take an earlier service (service).

(Instrumental)

Once cancelled, and twice late
I hate that station, but it will have to wait.
Tell me, Kenny, do you recognise me?
Well, it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me.

(Kensington O!)
I scrunched it up and threw it,
with a complaint to TFL, I meant it.
Now I know what a fool I've been,
but if you ran on time I know you'd fool me again.

Last District,
the train to Ken O,
it was very late and
the station was banned.

This year,
to save me from tears,
I'll take an earlier service (service).

Last District,
the train to Ken O,
it was very late and
the station was banned.

This year,
to save me from tears,
I'll take an earlier service (service).

Oh....

A crowded train, packed like tinned sardines,
it's hiding from it and its tracks of ice.
My gosh, the District's something you can never rely on,
it's a little thing sticking out from Earl's Court, baby!

A face on a train with a fire in its heart:
a desolate station, but it tore me apart.

Oh...

Now I found a real train line which won't run late again!

Last District,
the train to Ken O,
it was very late and
the station was banned.

This year,
to save me from tears,
I'll take an earlier service (service).

Last District,
the train to Ken O,
it was very late and
the station was banned.

This year,
to save me from tears,
I'll take an earlier service (service).

A face on a train with a fire in its heart:
a desolate station, but it tore me apart.
Maybe next year, I'll find a new train line,
I'll find a new train line, baby.

Last District,
the train to Ken O,
it was very late and
the station was banned.

This year,
to save me from tears,
I'll take an earlier,
I'll take an earlier
service.
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Ding Dong Perivale on High Barnet
Pimlico (Let it Snow)
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Let's not forget the playground classic:

We three kings of Leicester Square,
Selling ladies' underwear.
So fantastic, no elastic,
Only three pence a pair.
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The Orange One wrote:Ding Dong Perivale on High Barnet
Pimlico (Let it Snow)
How on earth does Perivale sound like merrily?!
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It doesn't. But Blackhorse doesn't sound like dusty.
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Good King Westminster looked out,
On the feast of Neasden.
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tractakid wrote:
The Orange One wrote:Ding Dong Perivale on High Barnet
Pimlico (Let it Snow)
How on earth does Perivale sound like merrily?!
I told you this was a bad idea.
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GuyBarry wrote:Good King Westminster looked out,
On the feast of Neasden.
Snow lay on the roundabout,
at Highbury & Islington.
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Bright was Waterloo that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
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He took the first train in sight,
And headed down to Ew-ew-ell.

(Well there wasn't an Underground station that rhymed!)
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Hither Green and East Putney
If thou know'st it, Epping
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"Yonder Chesham, who is he?
Where and Watford dwelling?"
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"Sire, he Liverpool Street rents,
Under Neasden Southgate."
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