Railway Hotel chords by Mike Batt

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
D MajorD A7A7 D MajorD G+G D MajorD G#dimG#dim A7A7 D MajorD G+G G+G AsusAsus A7A7


Verse 1:
  D MajorD      A7A7     D MajorD
We went to the room and we bolted the door,
   E MajorE             A7A7
The bass from the jukebox was coming through the floor,
   D MajorD        A7A7       D MajorD       G+G      D MajorD  DsusDsus D MajorD DsusDsus D MajorD
And out through the walls we could still hear the roar of the trains.
   D MajorD       A7A7    D MajorD
Was this all the comfort we got for our sins?
  E MajorE            A7A7
No candles, no waiters, no soft violins?
  D MajorD   A7A7     D MajorD       G+G    D MajorD   DsusDsus  D MajorD
A augmentedA dirty electric convector plugged into the mains.

Chorus:
    D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD  A7A7      A augmentedA   B minorBm  A7A7  D MajorD
I had wanted much more for the first night with you,
      A7A7 D7D7 G+G      G+G      D MajorD  A augmentedA  D MajorD
But the railway hotel was the best I could do.
  D MajorD  E minorEm D MajorD A7A7       A augmentedA B minorBm A7A7 D MajorD
I knew the Savoy would have suited you well,
       A7A7 D7D7 G+G      G+G    D MajorD  A7A7  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G#dimG#dim  A7A7  D MajorD  G+G  G+G  AsusAsus  A7A7
But the best I could do was the railway hotel.


Verse 2:
 D MajorD     A7A7      D MajorD
Away in the sky were the lights of a jet,
 E MajorE              A7A7
Burning in the night like a slow cigarette.
   D MajorD      A7A7      D MajorD     G+G      D MajorD  DsusDsus D MajorD DsusDsus D MajorD
The lamp in the street threw a soft silhouette on the wall.
   D MajorD      A7A7      D MajorD
And though it was crumbling and rundown and dead
  E MajorE           A7A7
A augmentedA chair and a sink and an old single bed,
   D MajorD    A7A7      D MajorD       G+G     D MajorD   DsusDsus  D MajorD
The love we began and the things that we said, I recall.


Chorus:
    D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD  A7A7      A augmentedA   B minorBm  A7A7  D MajorD
I had wanted much more for the first night with you,
      A7A7 D7D7 G+G      G+G      D MajorD  A augmentedA  D MajorD
But the railway hotel was the best I could do.
  D MajorD  E minorEm D MajorD A7A7       A augmentedA B minorBm A7A7 D MajorD
I knew the Savoy would have suited you well,
       A7A7 D7D7 G+G      G+G    D MajorD
But the best I could do was the railway hotel.


Outro:
A7A7  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G#dimG#dim  A7A7  D MajorD  G+G  G+G  AsusAsus  A7A7  D MajorD  DsusDsus  D MajorD