Second Class, Wait Here Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]At [D]sub[G]urban
railway stations,
you may see them as you [D]pass
There are signboards on the platform
saying, wait here, second class
[G]And to me the whir and thunder
and the clunk of running gear
[C]Seem to be forever a say[G]ing,
saying, [D]second class, wait [G]here
Yes, the second class were waiting
in the days of serf and [D]prince
And the second class are waiting,
they've been waiting ever since
[G]There are gardens in the background
and the line is bare and [C]drear
Yet they wait beneath
the sign[G]boards,
nearing [D]second class, wait [G]here[D][G]
I have waited in the winter,
in the mornings dark and [D]damp
When the asphalt platform
glistened underneath that lonely lamp
[G]And the wind among the poplars
and the wires that thread [C]the air
Seemed to be forever [G]snarling,
snarling,
[D]second -class wait [G]here
Out beyond a further suburb
near a chimney stack alone
[D]Lay the works of grinder brothers
with a platform of their own
[G]And I waited there and suffered,
waited there for many a [C]day
Slave beneath a fandom sign[G]board
telling [D]all my hopes to [G]stay[D][G]
Oh, man must feel revengeful
For a boyhood such as [D]mine
God, I hate the fairy houses
Near the workshop by the line
[G]And the smell of railway stations
And the roar of running gear
[C]And the scornful sneering signboa[G]rd
Saying, [D]second class, wait [G]here
There's a train with death for driver
that is ever going pas[D]t
There will be no glass compartments
when it's all aboard at [G]last
For the long white Jasper platform
with an Eden in the rear
[C]And there won't be any sign boa[G]rd
saying [D]second class wait [G]here
Oh no, there [D]won't be any sign board
saying second class wait [G]here[D][G]
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