C  G7  C  F  C  Dm G7  C  Dm  F  G7

[Verse 1]
Em                         C
We went to the room and we bolted the door,
Dm                            G7
The bass from the jukebox was coming through the floor,
C                   Em             C              F           C        F C
And out through the walls we could still hear the roar of the trains.
C                Dm         C
Was this all the comfort we got for our sins?
Dm                              G7
No candles, no waiters, no soft violins?
C           Dm       C             F        C
A dirty electric convector plugged into the mains.

[Chorus]
C            G7                C
I had wanted much more for the first night with you,
                  F                        C    G7
But the railway hotel was the best I could do.
C            Em                        C
I knew the Savoy would have suited you well,
                     F          Dm        C    G7
But the best I could do was the railway hotel.

[Interlude]
C  F  C

[Verse 2]
C           Dm           C
Away in the sky were the lights of a jet,
Dm                          Em         G7
Burning in the night like a slow cigarette.
C               G7             C       F              C     F C
The lamp in the street threw a soft silhouette on the wall.
C                 Dm              C
And though it was crumbling and rundown and dead
Dm                        G7         Em
A chair and a sink and an old single bed,
C             G7          C              F         C
The love we began and the things that we said, I recall.

[Chorus]
C             G7               C
I had wanted much more for the first night with you,
                  F           Dm           C    G7
But the railway hotel was the best I couid do.
C            Em                        C
I knew the Savoy would have suited you well,
                     F          Dm        C    G7
But the best I couid do was the railway hotel