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Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone

from Autobisongraphy by Dave Atkinson

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1972. From the studio tape for The Beggar and the Sand album, 1976.

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Tell me, mister, tell me, how long the train’s been gone,
I’m late ‘cos I've been sleeping and I must have slept too long
As I was sleeping I was dreaming about a train rolling on.

The engine ran on sunshine and the tanks were full of rain
And I dreamed that is every wagon there was green grass and grain,
There were flowers in the windows and every wild thing you could name was there

And the wheels spinning round
Were like the pounding of the sea
And the train made a sound
Like a warning to you and me;

Ah but mister I was sleeping and I must have slept too long
'Cos when I woke up in the morning the sun never shone
Oh tell me how long the train’s been gone.

He turned his face to answer and his eyes were full of tears
‘Ten minutes on the clock, sir, but ten million years,
And when the train came through the station there was nobody here’.

©Dave Atkinson 1972

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from Autobisongraphy, released November 19, 2021

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Dave Atkinson Chester, UK

I have been writing songs since 1967 when I was 17 and since I have accumulated over 440. Early influences were Dylan, Cohen, Jackson Browne Joni Mitchell, Kristofferson. Though never 'successful' in any conventional sense, my songs and guitar have led many sing-rounds and a couple of 1970's albums sell for £100s as 'rare vinyl'. Above all, it has been a happy adventure. www.atkinsongs.co.uk ... more

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