THE SLOW TRAIN
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

Then King's Singers


Miller's Dale for Tideswell, Kirkby Muxloe, Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...

No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Moretehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road -
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-Le-Street.
We won't be meeting again 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.

On the Main Line and the Goods Siding, the grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside 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.

Cockermouth for Buttermere on the slow train -
Armley Moor Arram ... Pye Hill and Somercotes
On the slow train.
Windmill End.



(Contributed by Lou Rugani - The Music of the Stars (WLIP) - May 2019)