The Slow Train

cover by frank turner of the nostalgic flanders & swann song about the closure of the train lines in 60s britain . capo 4 Intro : C Am miller’s dale for tideswell . . . kirby muxloe . . . mow cop and scholar green . . . C Am Dm7 G no more will i go to blandford forum and mortehoe C Am Dm7 G on the slow train from midsomer norton and mumby road . Em Am no churns , no porter , no cat on a seat Dm7 Bm E at chorlton - cum - hardy or chester - le - street . Am Dm7 we won’t be meeting again G on the slow train . i’ll travel no more from littleton badsey to openshaw . at long stanton i’ll stand well clear of the doors no more . no whitewashed pebbles , no up and no down from formby four crosses to dunstable town . i won’t be going again on the slow train . Em Am on the main line and the goods siding G the grass grows high Em Am at dog dyke , tumby woodside G and trouble house halt . the sleepers sleep at audlem and ambergate . no passenger waits on chittening platform or cheslyn hay . no one departs , no one arrives from selby to goole , from st erth to st ives . they’ve all passed out of our lives on the slow train , on the slow train . C Am G cockermouth for buttermere . . . on the slow train , C Am armley moor arram . . . C Am G pye hill and somercotes . . . on the slow train , C windmill end .