As Leonard Cohen once kind of sang, "We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky/and lost among the subway crowds I try to sing the Super Mario Bros. Theme song." It might have just been a fantasy back in 1968, but Gypsy Joe Trane is making Cohen's dream come true: below, watch a video of Trane performing the theme to Super Mario Brothers on an uptown R-train recently. As the video uploader put it, "This was one of the most entertaining rides I've had on the R. I like subway performers and these guys had the best approach I've seen: just stand and jam for many stops." Let's just hope that the pro-Koopa Troopas lobby doesn't get wind of this.
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