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Will You Won't You (Take Me To The Railway Show?) is a song featured in The Great Race. The song is sung by the majority of the characters in the special.

Lyrics

Duck: It's gonna be special!

It's gonna be great!

Off to the Mainland without coaches or freight

Edward, Norman, Stanley and Duck: Please Sir, I beg you

I just have to know

Will you won't you take me to the Railway Show?

Henry: Take me, Sir

I pull the heaviest trains

I'm such a mighty engine, Sir

It's never a strain

(Gordon laughs)

Gordon: It's not a tough decision, though I have to confess

It's hard to find a better engine for the express

Sir Topham Hatt: (spoken) Mmm, precisely!

Gordon: (spoken) But...I didn't mean not to take me, Sir!

Philip: Haha!

I know I'm kinda small, Sir

But I'm not a beginner

I had a race with Gordon once

And I was the winner!

Gordon: Oh...

(Philip yelps)

Diesel: You ought to take me, Sir

I'm modern and new

Your first diesel ever

I'm loyal, kind and true

Percy, Emily and Sidney: It's gonna be special

It's gonna be great

Off to the Mainland without coaches or freight

Charlie, Scruff and Stafford: Please Sir, I beg you

You can't tell me no

James: Will you won't you take me to the Railway Show?

Flynn and Belle: Fast engines

Henry and Daisy: Long engines

Bill, Ben, Timothy and Marion: Tough engines

Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handel and Peter Sam: Strong engines

Salty, Porter and Paxton: Everyone who's any engine's eager to go

Cranky: (spoken) I'm not going' anywhere.

Oliver, Bert, Rex and Mike: Will you won't you take us to the Railway Show?

Stephen: It's gonna be special

It's gonna be great

Duck, Donald and Douglas: Leavin' behind all our coaches and freight

Please Sir, we're beggin'

Ya just can't say no

Gordon, James and Diesel: Will you won't you take us to the Railway Show?

Henry, Duck, Donald and Douglas: Will you won't you take us to the Railway Show?

Thomas: Will you won't you take me to the (wears out) Railway Show...?

(Gordon, James and Diesel laugh)

Characters

Cast

UK and AUS

John Hasler as Thomas and Rheneas
Keith Wickham as Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Salty, Norman, Stafford, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Bert and Sir Topham Hatt
Christopher Ragland as Percy
Steven Kynman as Duck, Charlie, Porter, Paxton and Peter Sam
Joe Mills as Donald, Douglas and Oliver
Jules de Jongh as Emily
Rob Rackstraw as Flynn
Teresa Gallagher as Belle, Marion and Daisy
Tim Whitnall as Timothy and Mike
Tom Stourton as Rex
Bob Golding as Stephen and Sidney
Rasmus Hardiker as Philip
Kerry Shale as Scruff and Diesel
Matt Wilkinson as Stanley and Cranky
Jonathan Broadbent as Bill and Ben

US and CAN

Joseph May as Thomas
William Hope as Edward
Kerry Shale as Henry, Gordon, Scruff and Diesel
Rob Rackstraw as James, Stanley and Flynn
Christopher Ragland as Percy
Steven Kynman as Duck, Charlie, Paxton and Peter Sam
Joe Mills as Donald, Douglas and Oliver
Jules de Jongh as Emily
Teresa Gallagher as Belle, Marion and Daisy
David Menkin as Porter
Keith Wickham as Salty, Norman, Stafford, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Bert and Sir Topham Hatt
Tim Whitnall as Timothy and Mike
Tom Stourton as Rex
Jonathan Broadbent as Bill and Ben
John Hasler as Rheneas
Glenn Wrage as Cranky
Bob Golding as Stephen and Sidney
Rasmus Hardiker as Philip

Trivia

Philip references the events of The Little Engine Who Raced Ahead.
Diesel mentions that he is the Fat Controller's first diesel engine, which is most likely intended to be a reference to Pop Goes the Diesel.
In the US version, when Duck, Stanley, Edward, and Norman sing "Please Sir, I beg you, I just have to know", they sing it one at a time, but in the UK version, they sing it at the same time.
This is the only song featured in The Great Race which does not have an alternate version of itself.
After all the engine stop singing and get back to work, Percy sings "La la la la la la la la Railway Show!" to the tune of the song.

Goofs

When Thomas enters Knapford, in the first shot he is already inside the station, but in the next shot he is seen entering the station again.
When the song first begins, Thomas' driver's elbow clips through his cab door.
Duck is not steaming as he goes through Knapford Station.
In the US dub, when Stanley and Norman first speak, their voices are swapped over.
As Gordon pulls into Knapford:
- Emily is leaving the station with a row of her coaches. The second coach's body is missing, as only its chassis can be seen.
- When Gordon sings, the audio from the singing and the mouth animation do not sync.
- Gordon is seen puffing right to the end of the platform, but when during Philip's and Diesel's solos, Gordon is near the start of the platform and moves between shots.
Thomas goes over Henry's tunnel, despite the fact that there aren't any rails.
Rex's tender merges through his cab and his driver's head sticks through his boiler.
Stephen's wheels are moving slower than his side rods are.
In the US dub, when Gordon, James and Diesel sing "Will you, won't you take us to the railway show," Emily's voice can be faintly heard, her voice can be heard again when Henry, Duck, Donald and Douglas sing "Will you won't you take us to the railway show." she can even be heard laughing when Thomas arrives at the yard to sing along.
In both dubs, Percy's UK voice can be heard when Henry, Duck, Donald and Douglas sing "Will you won't you take us to the railway show.", but he is nowhere to be seen in either scene.
Towards the end of the song, James' bufferbeam clips through Gordon's running board. In the same shot, they stop moving, but in the next shot, they stop moving again.
In the UK dub, when Thomas comes in, James is seen laughing but his voice is not heard. This could be because his voice was drowned out by Gordon and Diesel.

In Other Languages

Language	Title
Czech	Vezmete nás, nebo ne (na velkou šou)?
Dutch	Kan ik Mag ik? (Naar de Spoorlijin Show)
German	Darf ich, kann ich? (mit, sie werden's nicht bereuen)
Japanese	レイルウェイ・ショーにつれてって
Portuguese	Diga se iremos
Russian	Еду я иль нет на Паровозное Шоу?
Spanish	A la Gran Carrera nos Debe Llevar

Music Video

Will You Won't You - Music Video