Last Train to Clarksville "Clarkesville", which is a much more rare spelling, now used only for a town in Georgia. Hart got the idea for the lyrics when he turned on the radio and heard the end of The Beatles' "Paperback Writer". He thought Paul McCartney was singing "Take the last train", and decided to use the line when he found out McCartney was actually singing "Paperback Writer". Hart knew that "The Monkees" TV series was being pitched as a music/comedy series in the spirit of The Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night", so he was hoping that by emulating The Beatles, this song
S-train S-train The S-train is a type of hybrid urban-suburban rail serving a metropolitan region. Some of the larger S-train systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble commuter or even regional rail. They are especially common in Germany and Austria, where they are known as S-Bahn, which in the 1930s was an abbreviation of either "Schnellbahn", "Stadtbahn" or "Stadtschnellbahn", depending on the city, but they must not be confused with "U-Stadtbahnen". Similar S-train systems exist also in Denmark, there known as S-tog, the Czech Republic as Esko, Switzerland also as S-Bahn, and northern Italy as