Bridal Train
2004
auThe Waifs
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5 chords used in this song

This song is by Vikki Thorn of The Waifs. She explains the story in an interview with Andrew Denton: "...my grandmother was a war bride, after the Second World War. She met Bob Cain, he was an American sailor. And they met in Perth, and after a very brief engagement, married and then he was sent away. She received a telegram at about midnight one night, saying pack your things, there’s a train, the US Navy is chartering a train to take war brides to Sydney, and from Sydney you can board a ship, and we’ll take you to America to be with your husbands, and I just wonder how those women must have felt as they were journeying across their country possibly for the last time you know to go and live in this, in this new place and you know with children, and you know I was…I get a bit emotional still when I sing that song."

You can play along in the original key with a capo on fret 1

Intro
GBmCEmD
GBmCEmD
G
GTelegram arrived today
Bm
It's Bm time to catch the Monterey
C
Cause the Cman I wed he waits for me
EmD
And the Emdaughter that he's Dyet to see
G
GUS navy beamed its message
Bm
Will deBmliver brides on a one way passage
C
It Cmade big news across the nation
EmD
The EmBridal Train leaves Dfrom Perth station
CD
CAll the girls aDround Australia
GEm
GMarried to a EmYankee sailor
C
The Cfare is paid across the sea
EmD
To the Emhome of the brave and the Dland of the free
CD
CFrom west to east the Dyoung girls came
GEm
GAll aboard the EmBridal Train
C
It was a Cfarewell crossing over land
DG
She's gone to meet her Dsailor Gman
G
GNo time for sad goodbyes
Bm
She Bmheld her mother as she cried
C
And Cthen waited there in the Freo rain
EmD
To Emclimb aboard the DBridal Train
G
Well she was Gholding her future in her hands
Bm
Bmfaded photo of a man
C
CCatch a sailor if you can
EmD
The Emwar bride leaves her Dsouthern land
CD
CAll the girls aDround Australia
GEm
GMarried to a EmYankee sailor
C
The Cfare is paid across the sea
EmD
To the Emhome of the brave and the Dland of the free
CD
CFrom west to east the Dyoung girls came
GEm
Gall aboard the EmBridal Train
C
It was a Cfarewell crossing over land
DG
She's gone to meet her Dsailor Gman
Instrumental, verse pattern
G
GThis is the story of those starry nights
Bm
Through Bmdesert plains and city lights
C
Through Cburning sun and driving rain
EmD
She Emwept aboard the DBridal Train
CD
CAll the girls aDround Australia
GEm
GMarried to a EmYankee sailor
C
The Cfare is paid across the sea
EmD
To the Emhome of the brave and the Dland of the free
CD
CFrom west to east the Dyoung girls came
GEm
GAll aboard the EmBridal Train
C
It was a Cfarewell crossing over land
DG
She's gone to meet her Dsailor Gman
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