Second Class, Wait Here(1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty

作曲：Slim Dusty/Henry Lawson

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 cluck of running gear

Seems 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 dark and drear

Yet they wait beneath a signboard

sneering 'second class wait here'

I have waited in the winter

in the morning dark and damp

When the asphalt platform glistened

underneath the lonely lamp

And the wind among the poplars

and the wires that thread the air

Seemed to be for ever snarling

snarling 'second class wait here'

Out beyond a further suburb

'neath a chimney stack alone

Lays the works of grinder brothers

with a platform of their own

And I waited there and suffered waited

there for many a day

Slaved beneath a 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 seeming signboards

saying 'second class wait here'

There's a train with death the driver

and it's ever going past

There will be no class compartments

when it all ahout at last

To that 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'