Lyrics Second Class, Wait Here - Slim Dusty
At
suburban
railway
stations
you
may
see
them
as
you
pass,
There
are
signboards
on
the
platform
saying,
"Wait
here
second
class";
And
to
me
the
whirr
and
thunder
and
the
clunk
of
running
gear,
Seem
to
be
forever
saying,
saying
"Second
class
wait
here"
Yes
the
second
class
were
waiting
in
the
days
of
serf
and
prince,
And
the
second
class
are
waiting,
they've
been
waiting
ever
since,
There
are
gardens
in
the
background,
and
the
line
is
bare
and
drear,
Yet
they
wait
beneath
a
signboard,
sneering
"Second
class
wait
here."
I
have
waited
in
the
winter,
in
the
mornings
dark
and
damp,
When
the
asphalt
platform
glistened
underneath
that
lonely
lamp,
And
the
wind
among
the
poplars
and
the
wires
that
thread
the
air,
Seem
to
be
forever
snarling,
snarling,
"Second
class
wait
here."
Out
beyond
the
further
suburb
near
a
chimney
stack
alone,
Lay
the
works
of
Rinder
Brothers
with
a
platform
of
their
own,
And
I
waited
there
and
suffered,
waited
there
for
many
a
day,
Slaved
beneath
the
phantom
signboard,
telling
all
my
hopes
to
stay.
Oh!
A
man
must
feel
revengeful
for
a
boyhood
such
as
mine,
God!
I
hate
the
very
houses
near
the
workshop
by
the
line;
And
the
smell
of
railway
stations
and
the
roar
of
running
gear,
And
the
scornful-sneering
signboards,
saying
"Second
class
wait
here."
There's
a
train
with
Death
for
a
driver,
that
is
ever
going
past,
There
will
be
no
class
compartments
when
it's
"All
aboard"
at
last;
For
the
long
white
jasper
platform
with
an
Eden
in
the
rear;
And
there
won't
be
any
signboards
saying
- "Second
class
wait
here."
Oh
no,
there
won't
be
any
signboards
saying
"Second
class,
wait
here."
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2 Middleton's Rouseabout
3 Bill
4 A Word to Texas Jack (with the Bushlanders)
5 As Good As New
6 Since Then
7 St. Peter
8 Callaghan's Hotel
9 A Mate Who Can Do No Wrong
10 Men Who Come Behind
11 Second Class, Wait Here
12 Peter Anderson & Co.
13 Do You Think That I Do Not Know
14 A Prouder Man Than You
15 Only the Two of Us Here
16 Ballad of the Drover
17 Written Afterwards
18 The Brass Well
19 Mount Bukaroo
20 The Old Jimmy Woodser
21 Break O'Day
22 To an Old Mate
23 Andy's Return
24 On the Night Train
25 The Man From Snowy River
26 The Man From Ironbark
27 Clancy Of The Overflow
28 Waltzing Matilda
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