Brian Peters – A Servant Of The Company chords

[Verse 1]
Am                    GMi Daddy started off  on the Old North Western
Am                    GMi Daddy left school  at just 14
Am                   GHe got a job in the  sheds at Longsight
C           G                     AmWorking to  keep all the engines  clean
C           G                     AmWorking to  keep all the engines  clean


[Verse 2]
Am                       GHe started as a fireman  on the LMS Railway
Am                 GThe only way then  that you got ahead
Am              GA 50 hour week  on a 9 A Jinty
C                G                    AmShunting up and  down in the engine  shed
C                G                    AmShunting up and  down in the engine  shed


[Verse 3]
Am                             GWell, mi Daddy passed fireman  on the LMS Railway
Am                    GAnd graduated in the  course of time
Am                 GTo working like a  navvy on a 4-6-4 tank
C             G              AmToiling away  up the Buxton  Line
C             G              AmToiling away  up the Buxton  Line


[Verse 4]
Am                      GThe Hungry 30’s on the  LMS Railway
Am              GFound mi Daddy  pretty well content
Am               GNewly in charge  of a jolly old Jumbo
C               G               AmBucketing away  into Stoke-on-  Trent
C               G               AmBucketing away  into Stoke-on-  Trent


[Verse 5]
Am                  GThirty years’ work  on the LMS Railway
Am                    GThirty years’ sweat,  do you wonder why?
Am                       GWell, I’ve got a photo,  taken 1947
C            G                    AmOf mi Daddy  on the footplate of  HLL
C            G                    AmOf mi Daddy  on the footplate of  HLL


[Verse 6]
Am                   GYes, 30 years’ work  on the LMS Railway
Am                     GThirty years’ labour,  hard and hot
Am                  GBut Daddy ended up  as a top link driver
C                  G                AmOn London trains,  with a re-built  Scot
C                  G                AmOn London trains,  with a re-built  Scot


[Verse 7]
Am                 GDaddy as the kind  of the whole creation
Am                   GDaddy as the master  of his own success
Am                         GIt’s great to be a driver  on the LMS Railway
C                 G             AmWhen everybody’s  heard of the  LMS
C                 G             AmWhen everybody’s  heard of the  LMS


[Verse 8]
Am                      GYes, mi Daddy lived and breathed for the LMS Railway
Am                      GBut that was long ago – and it’s rather sad
Am                    G(‘Cause) It’ll soon be forgotten, will the LMS Railway
C               G                     AmAnd who’s ever  heard of mi dear…old… Dad?


[Outro]
N.C.And who’s ever heard of mi dear…old…Dad?


Karen Morris, www.musicsmile0.wordpress.com