Standard (EADGBE)

 When my train rolled in one day

 It was the end of a long way

It felt like coming home

 Even 'though everything was unknown

Refrain

 Slow train, I went away without a word

 Slow train, one way, I never will return

I'd started five days ago

From a place I better wouldn't know

I left all that I had got behind

For the luck that I hoped to find

Refrain

Somewhere soft green hills were passing by

Above a grey and milky sky

I passed stations no one seemed to need

While the wheels grumbled 'neath my feed

Refrain

Crossing the mountains I fell asleep

I don't know how long I'd counted the sheeps

I spent the minutes, hours and miles

By dreaming of the promissed better times

Refrain

When I left the station stepping out on the place

A bright sun was shining in my face

And all the clouds that had occupied my brain

Seemed to be washed away by a hard rain

Refrain

one way, I never will return

one way, I never will return