TUBE TRAIN (Ron Griffiths)
[Iveys demo from "94 Baker Street -The Pop Psych Sounds of the Apple Era, 1967-1969"]

Metal mole, silver snake

Call it what you like

Flashing lights, neon signs

Such an eerie sight


CHORUS:

It's a tube train, tube train

Tu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ube train


Spoken: In the rush hour, they're a drag

You can't find your feet

They're so full, yeah

To the brim, yeah

Sardine tins on wheels


repeat CHORUS


Sometimes though, things get quiet

It's a fairyland (fairyland)

Inside the cavern and its mazes

Do you understand, (understand)?

Then the silence, it gets broken

With a rushing wind (rushing wind)

Comes a train then, takes my baby

Swallows her so quick (her so quick)


[actual tube train sounds recorded with voice:

"Went to the Marquee", "Would you get off my toe, please?"]


repeat verse 1


repeat CHORUS.

lyrics transcribed by Dan Matovina
corrections by Tom Brennan

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