Dinah:
Oh no!
Buffy:
Oh shucks!
Pearl:
It's the freight trains.
Ashley:
The dumb trucks!
Buffy:
Fourth tons of empty chrome.
Dinah:
The lights are on.
Ashley:
But nobody's home!
Buffy:
Let's show them who's boss.
Dinah:
Let's play a joke.
Pearl:
Yeah, let's have some fun.
Ashley:
Let's have a smoke!
Dinah:
Here they come.
Buffy:
To fill our station.
Pearl:
With witty, sparkling conversation.
Trucks & Coaches:
Freight is great.
That's brilliant!
Freight is great.
Don't you wish you'd thought of that?
We carry weight, 'cos we are freight,
And freight is great.
One more time!
Freight is great.
Did you think of that all by yourselves?
Freight is great.
That's so profound!
We never sulk. We hulk the bulk.
'Cos freight is great.
Well I certainly learned something today!
We never make a fuss. We got the goods on us.
We take the loads from off the roads.
And freight is great.
Ashley:
You just listen to what the coach says!
Coaches:
Couldn't stand gravel and sand,
Being ignored, no-one aboard,
Nobody complaining we were late again.
I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me.
Got to be living, breathing passengers train.
Trucks:
Freight is great.
Freight is great.
Trucks Coaches:
Freight Couldn't stand gravel and sand,
Being ignored, no-one aboard,
Is great Nobody complaining we were late again.
We carry weight I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me.
And freight is great Got to be living, breathing passengers train.
It's mommas and poppas It's commerce and hoppers.
It's daughters and sons It's quarters and tons.
They get in your hair It's the fun of the fair.
Freight! Folks!/
Tares! Fares?
Passengers, commuters
Trees and meat, and mail
gravel and shale.
Trucks % Coaches:
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are great!
Control:
Control. Control.
You wagons and passenger cars just cut it out..
Trucks will identify themselves. Box cars:
Rocky I:
Hey, I'm Rocky, there's lots like me.
Rocky II:
I'm Rock two.
Rocky III:
And I'm Rocky III.
Rockies:
The only time we get sick inside Is when some
bum hitches a ride. We wait for a sharp corner
to come And open the door -
bye bye bum!
Trucks:
Freight, is great!
Control:
Brick truck:
Flat-Top:
Flat-Top - who you lookin' at?
Yeah, they're bricks - what's wrong with that?
No, you're right they don't all match.
Yes they're heavy - here, catch!
Trucks:
Freight, is great!
Control:
The big hopper:
Flat-Top:
Dustin, that's you mate.
Control:
Come on, the big hopper:
Flat-Top:
Come on Dustin
Dustin:
I'm the Big Hopper, I'm not a box.
Rockies:
Yeah, your head is full of rocks.
Dustin:
They're not rocks, they're bits of gravel.
And gravel's got a right to travel
Flat-Top & Dustin:
Travellin' with gravel in,
Prayin' that we don't get wet.
Water and Mortar
Do things they didn't oughter.
Empty me before I set.
Trucks:
Down the track, from A to B and back
We carry things not people -
People talk a lot -
That isn't what, we like.
Coaches:
They're strong and silent!
[They laugh]
Trucks:
None of us may be a genius
But we know one thing -
What we know is:
Freight is great.
Freight is great.
Coaches: Trucks:
It's mommas and poppas It's commerce and hoppers.
It's daughters and sons It's quarters and tons.
They get in your hair
It's the fun of the fair.
Freight!
Folks! Tares!
Fares?
Passengers, commuters Trees and meat,
and mail gravel and shale.
Coaches & Trucks:
On the rails, on the rails, on the rails, on the rails
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are GREAT! |
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