The Slow Train chords

The Slow Train

• F

Intro - F Dm Gm C x3

Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...
    F                  Dm                 Gm   C   Gm  C
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
         F              Dm                  Gm    C    Gm  C
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
     Am                  Dm
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
      Gm                   A7
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
    Dm                 G
We won't be meeting again
         C
On the Slow Train.

       F                  Dm                 Gm    C   Gm  C
I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
    F                  Dm                     Gm       C    Gm  C
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
     Am                    Dm
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
      Gm                     A7
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
   Dm              G
I won't be going again
         C
On the Slow Train.

        Am
On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
      Bm         Em
The grass grows high
    Dm              Em             Dm
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside, and Trouble House Halt.

      F                Dm        Gm    C    Gm    C
The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
    F                   Dm                     Gm     C   Gm   C
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
Am              Dm
No one departs, no one arrives
       Gm                     A7
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
        Dm                     G
They've all passed out of our lives
         C
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.

Fades out - F Dm Gm C  
Cockermouth for Buttermere, on the Slow Train
Armley Moor Arram,
Pye Hill and Somercotes, on the Slow Train
Windmill End.

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