Token Back To Brooklyn

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Illustration from the Long Tall Weekend liner notes

song name	Token Back to Brooklyn
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Factory Showroom, Long Tall Weekend, They Got Lost, TMBG Clock Radio
year	1996
first played	Aug. 9, 2008 (1 known performances)
run time	1:01
sung by	John Flansburgh

This song first appeared on Factory Showroom in 1996 as a secret track that could be accessed by rewinding the CD for a minute before track 1 (S-E-X-X-Y). From tmbg.com, "This is actually a hidden track on one of our albums, but I'm not going to tell you how or where it is hidden."
The song description on Radio TMBG said this song was supposed to evoke a low-key nightmare.
From the Summer 1999 Info Club newsletter: "Another Dial-A-Song favorite finally makes it to the public. Drumming by Yuval Gabay of Soul Coughing."
This song's narrative bears a superficial resemblance to that of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A." by the Kingston Trio, a popular protest song from the 1940s about a poor man who became trapped on the subway because he was unable to afford a rate hike to get off.

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