Every Tube Station - an arrangement of the Jay Foreman & Jon Gracey song, for choir and piano, by Paul Ayres - sheet music available here - www.paulayres....
First time I ever heard Jay play this song he introduced it by asking audience members how they’d got to the gig and then for those who said “tube” which station they’d come from. Then he was able to banter a bit about the 270 and how hard it’d be to name them all. He didn’t ask me though, which was just as well as I’d come after work from the nearest station to my office.... Bank.
LYRICS: Hornchurch. Ickenham. Hainault. Cockfosters. Ravenscourt Park. Bromley-by-Bow. Morden. Monument. Mornington Crescent. Paddington. Plaistow. Pimlico. Dagenham Heathway, Elephant & Castle, Richmond, Sloane Square, Becontree, Brixton, Barbican, Chorleywood, Amersham, Eastcote, Alperton, East Finchley, Kenton, Kennington, Fairlop, Farringdon, Mile End, Barons Court, Maida Vale, Barking, Barkingside, Debden, Hammersmith, Vauxhall, Wembley Park, Tottenham Hale, Northwood, Oakwood, Wood Green, Woodford, Colliers Wood, and then Croxley, Charing Cross, King's Cross St. Pancras, Brent Cross, Hatton Cross, Osterley! Balham, Borough, Chesham, Hampstead, Loughton, Leyton, Leytonstone, Stanmore, Snaresbrook, Greenford, Northolt, Northfields, Southfields, Marylebone! Kingsbury, Queensbury, Queensway, Queen's Park, Park Royal, Royal Oak, Burnt Oak then, Aldgate, South Gate, Highgate, Moorgate, Notting Hill Gate, St. Paul's, Neasden, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Lambeth North, and Northwick Park, Upton Park, and Westbourne Park, and Wimbledon Park, and Stonebridge Park! Warwick Avenue, Waterloo, Watford, Walthamstow Central, with Wanstead, Hounslow West, and Hounslow East, and East Ham, West Ham, West Hampstead! Putney Bridge, Knightsbridge, Redbridge, London Bridge, Uxbridge, Perivale, Leicester Square, Goodge Street, Baker Street, Bond Street, Warren Street, Old Street, Liverpool Street, Edgware! West Acton, West Harrow, West Finchley, Kew Gardens, and Lancaster Gate, and Gunnersbury, Westminster, Upminster, Russell Square, Euston Square, Totteridge & Whetstone, East Putney! Ealing Broadway, Fulham Broadway, Tooting Broadway, Arsenal, Stockwell, Chigwell, Seven Sisters, Blackhorse Road, Blackfriars, Temple, East Acton, Oval, Bow Road, Colindale, Archway, Angel, Upminster Bridge, Clapham Common, Clapham North and Clapham South, and Swiss Cottage! Acton Town, and Camden Town, and Chalk Farm, and West Kensington, Canning Town, and Kentish Town, and Sudbury Town, and West Brompton! Theydon Bois, and Tooting Bec, and Stamford Brook, South Kensington, Rickmansworth, and Mansion House, and Marble Arch, South Wimbledon, Dollis Hill, Gants Hill, Grange Hill, Sudbury Hill, Tower Hill, Hillingdon, Aldgate East, Southwark, High Barnet, Earl's Court, Bayswater, Pinner, Victoria, Mill Hill East, High Street Kensington, Kensington (Olympia), Ealing Common, Bermondsey, Heathrow Terminals 4 and 5, and Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3! Epping, Euston, Kilburn, Kilburn Park, Chalfont & Latimer, Cannon Street, and Canons Park, Embankment, Canada Water! South Ealing, South Harrow, South Kenton, South Woodford, Canary Wharf, Harrow & Wealdstone, North Acton, North Ealing, North Greenwich, North Harrow, North Wembley, and Highbury & Islington! Caledonian Road, and Edgware Road, and Finchley Road, and Gloucester Road, and Goldhawk Road, and Holloway Road, and Latimer Road, and Preston Road, Elm Park, Regent's Park, Green Park, Holland Park, Hyde Park Corner, and Upney, Moor Park, Tufnell Park, Chiswick Park, Newbury Park, Finsbury Park, Roding Valley! Hendon Central, Hounslow Central, Wembley Central, Belsize Park, Finchley Central, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road, Woodside Park! Wood Lane, Hanger Lane, Chancery Lane, Rayners Lane, Turnpike Lane, Turnham Green, Buckhurst Hill, Golders Green, Kensal Green, Parsons Green, Stepney Green, Willesden Green, Bethnal Green, Harrow-on-the-hill Arnos Grove, Ladbroke Grove, Boston Manor, Manor House, St. James's Park and St. John's Wood, Shepherd's Bush Market, Shepherd's Bush, Harlesden, Holborn, Northwood Hills, Stratford! White City, Whitechapel, Willesden Junction, Wimbledon, Ruislip, Ruislip Gardens, South Ruislip, West Ruislip, Ruislip Manor, Great Portland Street, Dagenham East, Bounds Green, Bank!
If you want to include the new stations, Battersea and Nine Elms, when singing, their "canonical" placement in the lyrics is after the very end, between Bounds Green and Bank. You may also choose to sing "Heathrow Terminals Two and Three" instead of "One, Two, Three" as Heathrow Terminal 1 isn't a station anymore.
*doors closing* *does all the sounds of the lines speeding up* *slows down* This station is Ickenham. Change here for Piccadilly line and Metropolitan line. This is an all the lines train terminating at Bank. The next station is Hainault. Change there for the Central line. *sound of doors closing* Hornchurch. Ickenham. Hainault. Cockfosters. Ravenscourt Park.
I can't tell what adds to this so much - the sincerity and semi-formality of the performance, or the reactions of everyone at the back... Either way, I love it!
If this is not part of a holographic video essay in 150 years about how London's public transport has changed, I will be sorely disappointed. I won't be alive to see that, but my ghost will be around.
Great suggestion! It's a lovely arrangement, and probably already difficult for the singers to sing at that speed, but at 1.5x the song really shines. Sounds like the arrangement cut it down to exactly two thirds of its original tempo, and dialing it back up puts it right at the tempo of Jay Foreman's original. Update: It doesn't sound half bad at 1.25 speed either. It keeps most of the snappiness of Foreman's original, while also retaining the more ethereal style of the choral arrangement.
1.25x also sounds pretty good. Fast and bouncy enough to get the snappiness of the original, still slow enough for the strengths of the choral arrangement to be retained.
@@armedmaster2472 The London Underground network extends some distance (above ground) outside London (and used to extend a lot further). The only other underground railway in the UK is the Glasgow Subway, although both the Tyne and Wear Metro and Merseyrail have some stations underground. There was also the long-abandoned Clifton Rocks Railway in Bristol, which was an underground funicular railway.
