Abergavenny 2005
Words and music by Richard Homer
Am Em
Yet another train goes by, / tonight they go by
Am Em
the staccato of the track / ringing out clear
Am Em
the wind picking up, / birds rocking high
Am Em C
the train goes on and on, but / me, I’m half here
I wait in the empty house, / alone again
with no job, no respect, no / dignity
I hear the whistle of the / weathering train
I ask the question, why / erosion came to me
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Em Am G B Em Am G B
but tonight, I can’t work out / why I / want to think of / you
The gradient is steep to / Hereford here
the ringing of the carriage / on the late night track
bringing back the time / when you were near
with the fading train, the / quiet comes back
Em Am B
When the train goes by, / why do I think of / you? Em Am G B
Em Am B
Are you the woman / I once thought I / knew?
Am Em
When you appear in my thoughts, the / train will come by
Am Em Em C
to tell me again it’s / time for goodbye
The train, the train, / where are you / now?
Is it up to Hereford, / Leominster, or / where?
Or to the south, to / Cwmbrân, on to plough
through the aroma of the / cold Gwent winter air
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Yet another train goes past at / one ten am
the mail, no passengers this / time of night
my mind wanders now in / total mayhem
one angry bee or a / piranha coming to bite
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Ending Em, Am, G, B, twice, Am, Em, twice, ending high Em
