The Baggage Coach Ahead chords by Mac Wiseman

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: G+G

Intro:

G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm


Verse 1:
   G+G      E minorEm
On a dark stormy night
    G+G       E minorEm
as the train rattled on,
    G+G     G7G7     C majorC
all the passengers had gone to bed.
 C majorC
Except one young man
    G+G
with a babe in his arms,
  A7A7          D7D7
who sat with a bowed down head.

  G+G    E minorEm    G+G
The innocent one began crying
  G+G     G7G7        C majorC
as though its poor heart would break.
      C majorC
“Make that child stop its noise"
  G+G
One angry man said
     A7A7     D7D7   G+G
for it’s keeping all of us awake”.

Verse 2:
    G+G     E minorEm
"Put it out" said another,
    G+G     E minorEm
“don’t keep it in here –
  G+G      G7G7       C majorC
we paid for our berth and want rest”
  C majorC
But never a word
     G+G
said the man with the child
   A7A7           D7D7
as he fondled it close to his breast.

 G+G      E minorEm
“Where is its mother,
 G+G      E minorEm
go take it to her”
 G+G   G7G7    C majorC
A augmentedA maiden then softly said
  C majorC
“I wish that I could”
    G+G
was the man’s sad reply,
      A7A7     D7D7   G+G
“but she’s dead in the coach ahead.”


Refrain:
G+G     F#F#      G+G   G7G7
While the train rolled onward,
 C majorC
a husband sat in tears,
D MajorD
 thinking of the happiness
  G+G   C majorC     G+G
of just a few short years.

  G+G   F#F#     G+G    G7G7
The baby’s face brings pictures
   C majorC
of a cherished hope that’s dead.
  C majorC
But baby’s cries
  G+G    E7E7
can't waken her,
    A7A7   D7D7   G+G
in the baggage coach ahead.