AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY STORY
Trains of Treasure CD: TRAIN TRIP TO GUILFORD
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A song by John Dengate (1975)
John Dengate - guitar and vocals.Waiting, waiting for the twenty past four to arrive;
Mate, the twenty past four doesn't run any more,
The next train's the quarter past five.Time means money, they say,
And I must get to Guildford today
Did he say platform nine for the Liverpool line?
Do I have to change trains on the way?Indicator, please won't you indicate soon
With your little round light that this platform is right;
I've been waiting at Central since noon.This old fellow here next to me
Caught the bus up from Circular Quay;
He scratches his arse with his pensioner's pass
But he's on the wrong line for Narwee.Waiting, waiting, for the twenty past four to arrive;
Mate, the twenty past four doesn't run any more,
The next train's the quarter past five.Come on you timetable mob,
I'm desperately short of a bob,
I'm in my good gear and I'm right off the beer
And at Guildford they say there's a job.Indicator, please won't you indicate soon
With your little round light that this platform is right;
I've been waiting at Central since noon.The service is worse than a fraud
And the fare's more than I can afford
But I'll never complain - here comes the train to Guildford
And now I'm aboard.But it's Wentworthville, Pendle Hill;
We're rattling towards Emu Plains.
I should have got out when I heard someone shout
At Granville, "You have to change trains."Waiting, waiting for the twenty past eight to go back,
But the twenty past eight is half an hour late
And I think I'll lie down on the track.Notes
Trains of Treasure a CD of Australian railway songs and poems