The Baggage Coach Ahead chords by Mac Wiseman

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: G

Intro:

G  Em  G  Em


Verse 1:
     G           Em
On a dark stormy night
       G             Em
as the train rattled on,
        G          G7          C
all the passengers had gone to bed.
  C
Except one young man
       G
with a babe in his arms,
    A7                    D7
who sat with a bowed down head.

    G        Em        G
The innocent one began crying
   G          G7               C
as though its poor heart would break.
           C
“Make that child stop its noise"
    G
One angry man said
         A7          D7     G
for it’s keeping all of us awake”.


Verse 2:
        G          Em
"Put it out" said another,
       G          Em
“don’t keep it in here –
   G            G7             C
we paid for our berth and want rest”
    C
But never a word
         G
said the man with the child
      A7                      D7
as he fondled it close to his breast.

 G            Em
“Where is its mother,
 G            Em
go take it to her”
  G      G7       C
A maiden then softly said
   C
“I wish that I could”
        G
was the man’s sad reply,
           A7          D7     G
“but she’s dead in the coach ahead.”


Refrain:
G         F#           G      G7
While the train rolled onward,
  C
a husband sat in tears,
D
  thinking of the happiness
   G      C         G
of just a few short years.

    G      F#          G        G7
The baby’s face brings pictures
     C
of a cherished hope that’s dead.
    C
But baby’s cries
   G        E7
can't waken her,
       A7      D7     G
in the baggage coach ahead.