In The Luggage Van Ahead chords
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Hope This Is Song Requested (In The Baggage Coach Ahead)
This Is A Version By An Australian Singer Named Tex Morton
And The Words May Have Been Changed A Bit To Suit
The Australian Term For Baggage Coach
In The Luggage Van Ahead
Tex Morton
Key = F# (3/4)
Intro: F# - F# C#7 - C#7 - F# - (F# - Stop)
Yodel F# - C#7 - F# - F# - C#7 - F#
F#
On The Midnight Express As The Train Rattled On
B
All The Passengers Had Gone To Bed
C#m F#
All Save One Young Man With A Babe On His Knee
G#7 C#7 F#
Who Sat There With A Bowed Down Head
F#
The Innocent One Commenced Crying Just Then
B
As Though It's Poor Heart Would Break
C#m F#
When An Angry Man Said Make That Child Stop It's Noise
G#7 C#7 F#
It's Keeping Us All A-wake
F#
Put It Out Said Another Don't Keep It In Here
B
We've Paid For Our Berths And Want Rest
C#m F#
But Never A Word Said The Man With The Child
G#7 C#7 F#
As He Fondled It Close To His Chest
F#
Oh Where Is It's Mother Go Take It To Her
B
A Young Woman Softly Then Said
C#m F#
Wish To God That I Could Was The Man's Sad Reply
G#7 C#7 F#
But She's Dead In The Van A-head
Solwly>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
B F# B
While The Train Rolled Onwards The Husband Sat In Tears
C#7 F#
Thinking Of The Happiness Of Just A Few Short Years
B F# B
Baby's Face Brings Pictures Of A Cherished One Who's Dead
F#
But Baby's Cries Can't Waken Her
C#7 F# C#7 F# F#
In The Luggage Van A-head
Outro:
Yodel F# - B - F# - F# - F# - C#7 - C#7 - F# - (F# - Stop)