[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Em
Spine-tingling railway sleepers
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Sleepy houses lying four-square and firm
Em
Orange beams divide the darkness
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Rumbling fit to turn the waking worm
Am
Sliding through Victorian tunnels
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Where green moss oozes from the pores
     Am
Dull echoes from the wet embankments
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Battlefield allotments, fresh open sores

[Verse 2]
Em
In late night commuter madness
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Double-locked black briefcase on the floor
Em
Like a faithful dog with master
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Sleeping in the draught beside the carriage door
        Am
To each Journeyman his own home-coming
Am          C            D            Em
Cold supper nearing with each station stop
Am
Frosty flakes on empty platforms
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Fireside slippers waiting, flip, flop

[Chorus 1]
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Journeyman night-tripping on the late fantastic
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Too late to stop for tea at Gerard's Cross
Em
And hear the soft shoes on the footbridge shuffle
       G           A5            C        Em
As the wheels turn biting on the midnight frost

[Verse 3]
Em
On the late commuter special
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Carriage lights that flicker, fade and die
Em
Howling into hollow blackness
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Dusky diesel shudders in full cry
Am
Down redundant morning papers
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Abandon crosswords with a cough
Am
Stationmaster in his wisdom
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Told the guards to turn the heating off

[Chorus 2]
B                    A           B       A
Journeyman night-tripping on the late fantastic
B                A          B              A Dsus2
Too late to stop for tea at Gerard's Cross
Em
And hear the soft shoes on the footbridge shuffle
       G           A5            C        Em
As the wheels turn biting on the midnight frost