Railway Hotel (1977)    (video)

 

    C     - C - G - C - F     - C - D - G - C - F - G

 

             C               G                   C 

1. We went to the room and we bolted the door,

            D                                         G

    the bass from the jukebox was coming through the floor,

           C                        G                    C                  F                C   - Bb - C

   and out through the walls we could still hear the roar of the trains.

              C              G                C

    Was this all the comfort we got for our sins?

           D                                  G

    no candles, no waiters, no soft violins,

        C       G              C                     F             C      - Bb - C

    a dirty electric convector plugged into the mains.

 

                                   G                                       C

I had wanted much more for the first night with you,

                               F                                   C    - G

but the Railway Hotel was the best I could do.

C                         G                                         C

    I knew the Savoy would have suited you well,

                                F                                  C - G - C

but the best I could do was the Railway Hote.............l.

 

+  F - C - Bb - C

 

          C            G                  C

2. Away in the sky were the lights of a jet,

      D                                       G

    burning in the night like a slow cigarette,

           C                    G                 C           F                   C    - Bb - C

    the lamp in the street threw a soft silhouette on the wall.

                C                  G                  C

    And though it was crumbling and rundown and dead,

           D                                 G  

    a chair and a sink and an old single bed,

           C               G                  C                    F            C   - Bb - C

    the love we began and the things that we said, I recall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   G                                       C

I had wanted much more for the first night with you,

                               F                                   C    - G

but the Railway Hotel was the best I could do.

C                         G                                         C

    I knew the Savoy would have suited you well,

                                F                                  C

but the best I could do was the Railway Hotel.

 

+  C - G - C - F     - C - D - G - C - F - G - C

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (Mike Batt)