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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?"
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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