Trains and Boats and Planes

Words & Music by Hal David & Burt Bacharach
Recorded by Dion Warwick, 1966 (#22


A           D9         A         D9     A
Trains and boats and planes are passing by.

A   Asus4 A  D   Dsus4  D D9     D9
They mean a trip  to   Paris or Rome

    Asus4  E7   A         D9     A
For some - one else, but not for me.

    Asus4   A  A9   F#m  E7   F#m
The trains and the boats and planes

Bm7-5 E7 Bm7-5  F#m Bm7-5  E7  Bm7-5  F#m
Took you   a -  way,  a  - way  from  me.


A       D9      A        D9    A
We were so in love, and high above

A Asus4 A  D  Dsus4  D     D9  D
We had  a star  to  wish upon wish

    Asus4   E7   A        D9      A
And dreams come true, but not for me

    Asus4   A  A9   F#m  E7   F#m
The trains and the boats and planes

Bm7-5 E7 Bm7-5  F#m Bm7-5  E7  Bm7-5  F#m
Took you   a -  way,  a  - way  from  me.


F#m  F#m+7            D9     E7         F#m
You        are from another part of the world,

D9        Bm7-5        F#m
You had to  go  back a while and then

D9          Bm7-5         F#m
You said you soon would return again.

    D9      Bm7          B7
I'm waiting here like I promised to. 

    D9       B7      E7/9  E7  E7/9
I'm waiting here but where are you?


 A          D9        A          D9    A
Trains and boats and planes took you a-way,

A  Asus4 A  D  Dsus4  D      D9  D
But ev' ry time I    see them I pray

  Asus4   E7  A         D9        A
And  if  my prayer can cross the sea,

    Asus4   A  A9   F#m   E7   F#m
The trains and the boats and planes

Bm7-5  E7  Bm7-5  F#m Bm7-5  E7  Bm7-5  F#m
Will bring  you  back, back home  to    me.


(Instrumental Coda - 3 Lines of Verse)

    Asus4   A  A9   F#m   E7   F#m
The trains and the boats and planes

Bm7-5  E7  Bm7-5  F#m Bm7-5  E7  Bm7-5  F#m
Will bring  you  back, back home  to    me.



Okay, I admit it: I caved on this one. I've never been a huge fan of Bert Bacharach's music, because of his irregular melodies, and I've never been a huge fan of Dionne Warwick either, because despite a gorgeous, powerful voice, she's got a vibrato you could drive a truck through and I often found that distracting. So why am I including this song at all? For no better reason than the fact that I saw somebody looking for it in one of the guitar-related newsgroups and thought, "Gee, hasn't anybody done that one?"


 
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