Key: C
Introduction: C
F
The train to Sligo moves too slow
C F
As it brings her from the school below
C F
She wants to be home faster than
C G
The train to Sligo ever can
verse 2
C F
She wonders where the passing time goes
C F C
Creeping by her window, my oh my
F
It?s getting longer than
G C
It ever has before
Eyes wide as silver dollars
Bb
Hold on, it seems so long to learn
G
What?s right from what is wrong
C
Oh, school books and fancy collars
I might not care to be a scholar
Bb
'Hold on' her daddy tells her
G C
'Learn to sing your song'
verse 3
F
The train from Sligo moves too fast
C F
When holidays are gone at last
C F
Winter days are here again
C G
Please promise me you?ll write me then
verse 4
C F
It?s two long weeks till I get home
C F
I can?t help feeling all alone
C F
If someone doesn?t write me soon
G C
I?ll simply fade away
Eyes wide as silver dollars
Bb
Hold on, it seems so long to learn
G
What?s right from what is wrong
C
Oh, school books and fancy collars
I might not care to be a scholar
Bb
'Hold on' her daddy tells her
G C
'Learn to sing your song'
Instrumental
C F C F C F G C
Eyes wide as silver dollars
I Can?t think why, but she?s a scholar
Bb
Hold on, it seems so long to learn
G
What?s right from what is wrong
C
Oh, school books and fancy collars
I might not care to be a scholar
Bb
'Hold on' her daddy tells her
G C
'Learn to sing your song'