DINAH
Oh no!
BUFFY
Oh shucks!
PEAL
It's the freight trains.
ASHLEY
The dumb trucks!
BUFFY
Forty ton 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.
ASLHEY
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 brillian!)
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
(It'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.
(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 a living, breathing passenger 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 a living breathing passenger train.
It's mommas and poppas/it's commerce and hoppers,
It's daughters adn sons/it's quarters and ton,
They get in your hair/it's the fun of the fair,
Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares!
Pasengers, commuters and mail/
Trees and meat, gravel and shale/
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 1
I'm Rocky, there's lots like me.
ROCKY 2
I'm Rocky two.
ROCKY 3
I'm Rocky three.
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 looking at?
Yea, 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.
Gravel's got a right to travel.
DUSTIN & FLAT-TOP
Travellin' with gravel in.
Praying that we don't get wet.
Water and mortar
Do things they didn't oughter.
Empty me before I set.
TRUCKS
Down the track form A to B and back
We carry things not people -
People talk a lot -
That isn't what we like.
CONTROL
They're strong and silent!
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 quaters and tons/
They get in your hair, it's the fun of the fair/
Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares!
Passengers, commuters and mail/
Trees and meat, gravel and shale/
On the rail, on the rail, on the rail, on the rail
Are great, are great, are great, are great, are GREAT!
Writer(s): Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe
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