Bridal Train Chords by The Waifs

It's a little love story my grandmother told me about how she fell in love with an American sailor
when she was 18 in Perth and WA
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And _ _ _ [N] after the and she got married she married him during the war and after the war finished the US Navy
Chartered a train from Perth to Sydney to carry all the war brides
To Sydney and from there they got on a ship and sailed
_ Sailed off to their new lives in in [Ab] America
_ And so it became the difference between the love of a man and [C] a love of the country
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Db] It's called the bridal train
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_ Telegram arrived today
There [Cm] is time to catch [Ab] the Monterey
[C] [Db] Cause the man I wed he waits for me and [Fm] the daughter
That [Eb] is yet to see
[Ab]
The US Navy beamed its message [Cm] will deliver brides on a
one-way [Ab] passage
[Db]
In my big news
Across [Fm] the nation the bridal train [Eb] leaves from Perth station
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All the [Eb] girls around
the straight [Ab] out
[Eb] married to a [Fm] Yankee [Eb] [Ab] sailor
[Db] If it is by
_ across the sea
[Fm] To the home of the brave [Eb] land of [Ab] the free
[Db] from west to east [Eb] the young girls [Ab] guy
_ [Eb] All aboard [Fm] the bridal [Eb] train.
It [Db] was a farewell crossing
_ Overland she's gone to meet her [Eb] slain
_ [Ab] _ man _ _ _ _ _ _
Not time for sad goodbyes
Well, [Cm] she held her mother and she cried [Db] and then waited there in the free Oh rain
[Fm] to climb aboard [Eb] the
Bridal [Ab] train where she was holding a future in her hand
Yeah, [Cm] the finest photo _ of a [Ab] man
[Db] Catch a sailor if you [Ab] can
[Fm] bright leaves [Eb] her Southern _ [Db] man
all the girls [Eb] around Australia
[Ab] married [Eb] to [Fm] a
Yankee [Eb] _ [Ab]
[Db] sailor if it is paid
Across the [Eb] sea [Fm] to the home of the brave [Eb] and the land of the [Ab]
[Db] free
From west [Ab] to east the young girls came
All [Eb] aboard the [Ab] bridal train.
[Eb]
[Ab] It was a farewell crossing _ _
Overland [Db] she's gone to meet [G] her slain
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This _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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is the story of the [Fm] starry nights
[Ab] through desert black _ [Cm] city lights
[Db] through burning sun and [Ab] driving rain
[Ebm] [Fm] They wept [Eb] aboard the bridal train
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all the girls [Cm] around [Abm] astray
married [Eb] [Ab] to a Yankee
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Ferris
across the sea
[F] To home [Fm] of the brave [Eb] and the _ land [Db]
of the free
From west to east [Eb] the young girls [Ab] came
[Eb] All aboard [Fm] the bridal [Ab] train
[Db] Was a farewell crossing
_ Overland she's gone to meet [Bbm] her [Cm] slain
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