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tubeguru wrote:Guitar and singing can be provided by me (yes, I CAN sing properly).

I could provide piano/keyboard skills, and I've just been spending the last few minutes perfecting rapping the new lyrics over the music.

And I can sing properly too, so could be an extra voice if need be.

Legendary!

I approve wholeheartedly.

Shoreditch Station, what's all the fuss?
An East London driver is looking right up at us

...

An East London Train moving down on the LINE
Departs Shoreditch Station for the very last time

...

When your train's on time you can smile, smile, smile
But the ELL trains are always late by a mile
There are more crappy stations than there really oughta
And the only decent one's called Canada Water [see what I did there?]

I've completely lost the thread of this final verse
But it doesn't really matter cos I'm dying of thirst
So we'll go down the pub and we'll all raise a glass
To the East London Line - what a bunch of arse!

Chorus etc etc ad infinitum

I'll fashion all of that into a song of sorts. Tidy a few syllables up here and there.

The crappy last verse can stay - it fits with the subject matter.

tubeguru wrote

And the only decent one's called Canada Water [see what I did there?]

Oh the fun nights I spend waiting at Canada Water for an ELL train down to New Cross Gate to pick up my car when I don't park it at North Greenwich. Seeing the train waiting at Rotherhithe never helps.

Think I will miss Shoreditch in some ways, it was the last station I visited on the system gaving me a personal best of 17 years and 3 weeks! Going to make a better attempt this year.

Youl'll have enough songs for an album soon Crunch.

Yeah, I'm up for this.

I love the line about the trains smelling like wee... reminds me very much of the Chesham - Chalfont shuttle!

I think it would be so cool if we all took portable instruments (acoustic guitar, battery-powered keyboard etc) and actually started playing the song as soon as the train pulls out of Shoreditch.

How awesome would that be? It would be a really great way to "send off" Shoreditch station.

I could bring a drum.

I could bring an out-of-tune guitar, and my vocal chords in need of severing.

We would get heavily fined for swearing so much...

CrunchySaviour wrote:We would get heavily fined for swearing so much...

Shoreditch is closing for a very good reason- there will be nobody else on the train to hear the profanities

^ My thoughts exactly. I have never seen anybody get on a train at Shoreditch, and I have only ever seen two or three people get off there.

But then I have only been there once, which might explain it.

One other thing that will not be missed is the two or three minutes of confusion when all the signs are unlocked and swapped round at Whitechapel when the Shoreditch trains start running. Usually several people sit on the Shoreditch platform waiting to go south and miss the trains leaving from the other platform. I think one of the station assistants has to go round asking everybody where they want to go to make sure they are on the right platform.

I was up for this.. but all the singing posts have me scared *L*

Yeah, me too.

Can we tone down the embarrassing elements of this?

Yes. Maybe the song isn't entirely necessary.

We could still have a live rendition of Stand on the Right Please though...