Starlight Express movie - Freight lyrics

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Song by Rusty<br /><br>

DINAH <br>

Oh no! <br>

BUFFY <br>

Oh shucks! <br>

PEARL <br>

It's the freight trains. <br>

ASHLEY <br>

The dumb trucks! <br>

BUFFY <br>

Forty tons of empty chrome. <br>

DINAH <br>

The lights are on <br>

ASHLEY <br>

But nobody's home! <br>

BUFFY <br>

Let's show them who's boss. <br>

DINAH <br>

Ler's play a joke. <br>

PEARL <br>

Yeah, let's have some fun. <br>

ASHLEY <br>

Let's have a smoke! <br>

DINAH <br>

Here they come... <br>

BUFFY <br>

To fill our station... <br>

PEARL <br>

With witty, sparkling conversation! <br>

TRUCKS <br>

Freight is great<br>

Freight is great<br>

We carry weight 'cos we are freight<br>

And freight is great.<br>

Freight is great<br>

Freight is great<br>

We never sulk.We hulk the bulk.<br>

'Cos freight is great.<br>

We never make a fuss. We got the goods on us.<br>

We take the loads from off the roads<br>

And freight is great.<br>

COACHES <br>

That's brilliant<br>

Don't you wish you'd thought of that?<br>

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One more time!<br>

Did you think of that all by yourselves?<br>

It's so profound!<br>

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Well I certainly learned something today!<br>

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You just listen to what the coach says!<br>

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COACHES <br>

Couldn't stand gravel and sand, <br>

Being ignored, no-one aboard, <br>

Nodoby complaining we were late again. <br>

I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me. <br>

Got to be a living, breathing passenger train. <br>

TRUCKS <br>

Freight is great. <br>

Freight is great. <br>

TRUCKS / COACHES <br>

Freight/Couldn't stand gravel and sand, <br>

Being ignored, no-one aboard, <br>

Is great/Nodoby complaining we were late again. <br>

We carry weight/I should hate carrying freight, nobody living in me. <br>

And freight is great/Got to be a living, breathing passenger train. <br>

It's mommas and poppas/ it's commerce and hoppers, <br>

It's daughters and sons/it's quaters and tons, <br>

They get in your hair/it's the fun of the fair, <br>

Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares! <br>

Passengers, commuters and mail/ <br>

Trees and meat, gravel and shale/ <br>

Are great, are great, are great, are great, are great! <br>

CONTROL <br>

Control. Control. You wagons and passenger cars just cut it out. <br>

Trucks will identity themselves. Box cars: <br>

ROCKY I <br>

I'm Rocky, there's lots like me. <br>

ROCKY II <br>

I'm Rocky two. <br>

ROCKY III <br>

I'm Rocky three. <br>

ROCKIES <br>

The only time we get sick inside <br>

Is when some bum hitches a ride. <br>

We wait for a sharp corner to come <br>

And open the door - bye bye bum! <br>

TRUCKS <br>

Freight is great! <br>

CONTROL <br>

Brick truck. <br>

FLAT-TOP <br>

Flat-Top - who you looking at? <br>

Yeah, they're bricks - what's wrong with that? <br>

No, you're right, they don't all match. <br>

Yes they're heavy - here, catch! <br>

TRUCKS <br>

Freight is great! <br>

CONTROL <br>

The big hopper. <br>

FLAT-TOP <br>

Dustin, that's you, mate. <br>

CONTROL <br>

Come on, the big hopper. <br>

FLAT-TOP <br>

Come on, Dustin. <br>

DUSTIN <br>

I'm the big hopper, I'm not a box. <br>

ROCKIES <br>

Yeah, your head is full of rocks. <br>

DUSTIN <br>

They're not rocks, they're bits of gravel. <br>

Gravel's got a right to travel. <br>

DUSTIN AND FLAT-TOP <br>

Travellin' with gravel in. <br>

Praying that we don't get wet. <br>

Water and mortar <br>

Do things they didn't oughter. <br>

Empty me before I set. <br>

TRUCKS <br>

Down the track from A to B and back <br>

We carry things not people - <br>

People talk a lot - <br>

That isn't what we like. <br>

COACHES <br>

They're strong and silent! <br>

TRUCKS <br>

None of us may be a genius <br>

But we know one thing - <br>

What we know is: <br>

Freight is great. <br>

Freight is great. <br>

COACHES AND TRUCKS <br>

It's mommas and poppas/ it's commerce and hoppers/ <br>

It's daughters and sons/it's quaters and tons/ <br>

They get in your hair/it's the fun of the fair/ <br>

Freight!/Folks!/Tares!/Fares! <br>

Passengers, commuters and mail/ <br>

Trees and meat, gravel and shale/ <br>

On the rails, on the rails, on the rails, on the rails <br>

Are great, are great, are great, are great, are GREAT!<br>

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