Frank Turner - The Slow Train

cover by frank turner of the nostalgic flanders & swann song about the closure of
the train lines in 60s britain .

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miller’s dale for tideswell . . .
kirby muxloe . . .
mow cop and scholar green . . .

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no more will i go to blandford forum and mortehoe
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on the slow train from midsomer norton and mumby road .
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no churns , no porter , no cat on a seat
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at chorlton – cum – hardy or chester – le – street .
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we won’t be meeting again
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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 .

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on the main line and the goods siding
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the grass grows high
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at dog dyke , tumby woodside
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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 .

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cockermouth for buttermere . . . on the slow train ,
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armley moor arram . . .
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pye hill and somercotes . . . on the slow train ,
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windmill end .