• Song:

    Bridal Train

  • Artist:

    The Waifs

  • Album:

    A Brief History (disc 2...

Transcribed by danielson2662@hotmail.com 
Capo on 1 
When going from G5 to Em use a passing chord =  E5 (fret 3) E5 then E5 
 
 
G5 
A Telegram arrived today, 
E5 
well its time to catch the Monteray 
C5 
Cause the man I wed he waits for me 
E5                       D5 
and a daughter that he's yet to see 
 

G5 
US Navy beamed its message, 
E5 
will deliver brides on a one way passage 
C5 
it made big news across the nation 
E5 
the bridal train leaves from Perth Station 
 

C5               D5 
All the girls around Australia 
G5       E5 
Married to  a Yankee Sailor 
C5 
The fare is paid across the sea 
                                 D5            G5 
to the home of the brave and the land of the free 
 

C5                     D5 
From west to east the young girls came 
G5          E5 
all aboard the bridal train 
          C5 
it was a farewell crossing over land 
                        D5       G5 
she's gone to meet her sailor man 
 

G5 
No time for sad goodbyes, 
E5 
well she held her mother as she cried 
C5 
and then waited there in the Freo Rain, 
E5                    D5 
to climb aboard the bridal train 
 

G5 
well she was holding her future in her hand 
        E5 
yeah the faded photo of her man 
C5 
catch a sailor if you can 
E5                      D5 
the war bride leaves a southern land 
 
All the girls around  Australia 
 
Married to  a Yankee Sailor 
 
The fare is paid across the sea 
 
to the home of the brave and the land of the free 
 
From west to east the young girls came 
 
all aboard the bridal train 
 
it was a farewell crossing over land 
 
she's gone to meet her sailor man 
 
Instrumental 
 

G5 
Now this is the story of those starry nights 
      E5 
through desert plains and city lights 
    C5 
through burning sun and driving rain 
      E5              D5 
they wept aboard the bridal train 
 
All the girls around  Australia 
 
Married to  a Yankee Sailor 
 
The fare is paid across the sea 
 
to the home of the brave and the land of the free 
 
From west to east the young girls came 
 
all aboard the bridal train 
 
it was a farewell crossing over land 
                                   G5 
she's gone to meet her sailor man
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