| Artist: | Cyril Tawney Colin Shewry (English) |
| User: | Colin Shewry |
| Duration: | 130 seconds |
| Delay: | 12 seconds |
| Chord names: | Not defined |
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Additional Verses by Colin Shewry |
3/4 Slowely
C Dm
The pinstripe boys have had their say
G Dm G
A line must go if it doesn't pay
C Am G7
But I'm too old to move away
C Am G
I'm in the sidings now
C Dm
I've worked this line for many a day,
G Dm
I can name any driver a mile away.
C Csus4 Am G7
But that's no use when your hair turns grey
C F C
I'm in the sidings now.
C Dm
Well now I know how a wagon feels
G Dm G
When the grass comes creeping around its wheels
C Am G7
And the timbers rot and the paintwork peels
C Am G
I'm in the sidings now.
C Dm
I'll give me whistle one more blow
G Dm
Turn me shutting pole into a garden hoe
C Csus4 Am G7
My boiler fire is burning low
C F C
I'm in the sidings now.
C Dm
Good businessmen have often said
G Dm G
Always trim your costs if you're in the red
C Am G7
Well, come shake hands with an overhead
C Am G
I'm in the sidings now.
C Dm
If your money-tree will bear no fruit
G7 C Dm
Never blame the man who tends the root
C Csus4 Am G7
But take your knife to the tender shoot
C F C
I'm in the sidings now.
C Dm
A row of bricks seen in the ground
G Dm G
where the platform edge could once be found
C Am G7
A carpark now by the school playground
C Am G
There is no siding now
C Dm
The station’s now a house instead
G Dm
The waiting room is a flower bed
C Csus4 Am G7
The cafe once was an engine shed
C F C
There is no siding now
C Dm
The track ripped up , the iron sold on
G Dm G
Tarmac laid where the train had gone
C Am G7
A cycle path is now the railways song
C Am G
There is no siding now
C Dm
A ghostly train the image lean
G Dm
The distant echo of the hissing steam
C Csus4 Am G7
A memory of what once had been
C F C
There is no siding now