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Journeyman chords by Jethro Tull

  • Em

  • G

  • Am

  • C

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • B

    2
  • A

  • Cm

    3
  • E

Verse 1
Em
Spine-tingling railway
railway sleepers
G
Am
Sleepy houses ly ing four-square
C
Em
an d and firm.
Verse 2
Orange beams divide the darkness
G
Am
Em
Rumbling fit to turn the waking worm.
Am
Sliding through Victorian tunnels
C
D
Em
Where green moss oozes from the pores.
Am
Dull echoes from the
wet embankments
G
Bm
Em
Battlefield allotments. Fresh open sores.

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Verse 3
Em
In late night commuter
madness
G
Double-locked black black
Am
Em
briefcase on the floor,
Like a faithful dog with master
G
Am
Sleeping in the draught beside
Em
the carriage door.
Am
To each Journeyman
his own home-coming
C
Cold Cold supper nearing with
D
Em
each station stop.
Am
Frosty flakes on empty platforms
G
Fireside slippers waiting.
Bm
Em
Flip. Flop.
B
Journeyman
Verse 4
A
night-tripping on
B
A
B
on the late fantasic
A
B
Too late to stop for tea at Gerard's Cross
Em
And hear the soft shoes on the
footbridge shuffle
G
A
As the wheels turn biting on the
Am
Cm
Am
Em
A
mid night frost.
Em
On the late commuter special
G
Am
Carriage lights that flicker,
Em
fade and die
Howling into hollow blackness
G
Am
Em
Dusky diesel shudders in full cry.
Am
Down redundant morning papers
C
D
Em
Abandon crosswords with a cough
Am
Sta tionmaster in his wisdom
G
Am
Em
Told the guard to turn the heating off.
Outro 1
Em
B
A
B
A
E
B
A
B
Am
Em
G
Am
C
Am
A
Em
N/A
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