Will You Won't You

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

## Lyrics

### The Great Race

**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**: Mmm, precisely!

**Gordon**: 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, Marion and Timothy**: 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**: I'm not goin' 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)*
**Donald and Douglas**: Leaving behind all our coaches and freight
Please Sir, I begging
You 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 want to take me to the Railway Show?
### The Big Race

**Henry**: Sir, sir!

**The Fat Controller**: Yes, Henry?

**Henry**: Will you take me to the Great Railway Show?
**The Fat Controller**: Henry...

**Henry**: Please, sir! I pull loads of heavy trains, sir! I think I could win the strength competition! I'm such a mighty engine, you know!
**The Fat Controller**: Perhaps, but-

**James**: I think you should take me, sir. My paintwork will surely win some sort of competition!
**Henry**: I think my strength is more important than your paintwork. I'm built this way. Your red coat can be replaced quite easily.
**James**: (gasps) Oh, it can?! Wow, I never knew that!
**Gordon**: Personally, I'd choose myself, sir. I am fastest and best-
**Henry**: -and we know the rest
**Gordon**: ...that's not clever, Henry. Didn't you not want to go?
Nonetheless, I can go up to 100 miles per hour. Then I can beat my famous brother!

**The Fat Controller**: Alright, everyone, settle down. I'll get all this sorted soon, but please just-

**Philip**: Oh, hello everyone! Why don't you take me?!
**James**: ...seriously?
**Philip**: Of course! I may be new and small, but I raced Gordon once, and I was the winner!
**James**: ...no you weren't.
(*Gordon snorts*)

**Philip**: Yes I was, James. He wasn't behind me the whole time. I won easily!
**The Fat Controller**: Do I want to know about this?

**Philip**: Actually yes, you do! At least you should. So first I was-
**The Fat Controller**: It was a rhetorical question, Philip...
**Philip**: Oh.
**The Fat Controller**: Alright everyone. Now, can you please just-

(*Diesel bumps Philip who races back to the yard*)

**Philip**: I still wooooon!
(*Diesel snickers*)

**Diesel**: Take me, sir, I was your first diesel, you know. I'm loyal, kind, and true, as well as modern and revolutionary.
(*Gordon sniffs*)

**Gordon**: What competition would you compete in, eh...?
**Diesel**: ...um... I don't know...
**Gordon**: Exactly. Leave us be and-
**Duck, Donald and Douglas**: Sir, sir!
Can we make a suggestion? Please?

**The Fat Controller**: ...three more?

**Duck**: I'm a very strong shunter, sir. Remember why you gave me a branch line?
**The Fat Controller**: Yes, I do, but-
**Duck**: It's because I arranged the yard so well, of course

**Diesel**: Oh of course, you get a branch line, and I'm simply looked at is devious...
**Donald**: Or ye cuid tak' us! We wirk weel th'gither!
**Douglas**: That's richt!
We could win if we practice.

**James**: Aren't you not supposed to take twins...? James
**Douglas**: Whit? How come?
**Henry**: Well... uh... it sounds like you'd be cheating
**Donald**: Whit nonsense!
(*The Fat Controller sighs and is about to tell everyone off*)

**Stanley, Edward and Norman**: Please sir! I beg you...
**Charlie, Scruff and Stafford**: You can't tell me know.
**Sidney**: But...
**Stanley, Edward, Norman, Sidney, Charlie, Scruff and Stafford**: Will you won't you take me to the railway show?
**Flynn and Belle**: Fast engines!
**Daisy and BoCo**: Long engines!
**Bill, Ben, Timothy and Marion**: Tough engines!
**Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handel and Peter Sam**: Strong engines!
**Salty, Porter and Paxton**: Anyone who any engine's eager to go!
**Cranky**: I'm not goin' anywhere.

**Oliver, Mike, Bert and Rex**: Will you won't you take us to the railway show?
**Stephen**: It's gonna be special! It's gonna be great!
**Geoffrey**: Leaving behind all our coaches and freight!
Please sir, I'm begging. Ya just can't say no!
**Gordon, James and Diesel**: Will you won't you take us to the railway show?
**Henry, Gordon, James, Duck, Donald, Douglas, Geoffrey and Diesel**: Will you won't you take us to the railway show?
(*Thomas' whistle blows*)

**The Fat Controller**: Oh... lovely... another engine...

**Thomas**: Why don't you take me?!
(*Henry, Gordon, James and Diesel laugh*)

## Characters

### The Great Race

* Thomas
* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Duck
* Donald and Douglas
* Oliver
* Bill and Ben
* Emily
* Stanley
* Charlie
* Scruff
* Belle
* Stephen
* Porter
* Timothy
* Diesel
* Daisy
* Salty
* Sidney
* Paxton
* Norman
* Flynn
* Winston
* Stafford
* Marion
* Skarloey
* Rheneas
* Sir Handel
* Peter Sam
* Bert
* Rex
* Mike
* Cranky
* The Fat Controller
* Winston (*cameo*)
* Annie and Clarabel (*cameo*)
* Toad (*cameo*)
* Owen (*cameo*)

### The Big Race

* Thomas
* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Duck
* Donald and Douglas
* Oliver
* Bill and Ben
* Geoffrey
* Stanley
* Charlie
* Scruff
* Belle
* Stephen
* Porter
* Timothy
* Diesel
* Daisy
* BoCo
* Salty
* Sidney
* Paxton
* Norman
* Flynn
* Winston
* Stafford
* Marion
* Skarloey
* Rheneas
* Sir Handel
* Peter Sam
* Bert
* Rex
* Mike
* Cranky
* The Fat Controller
* Percy (*cameo*)
* Emily (*cameo*)
* Winston (*cameo*)
* Annie and Clarabel (*cameo*)
* Toad (*cameo*)
* Owen (*cameo*)

## 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.
* This is the only song featured in The Great Race which does not have an alternate version of it.