Chords:
{t:Taumaruni on the Main Trunk Line}
{artist: Peter Cape}
{key: C}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UDc655w4Rc
{c: Thanks to Stephen Beeston}
I'm an [C] ordinary joker, growing [F] old before me time,
Cause me [C] heart's in Taumarunui on the [D] Main Trunk [G] Line
in [C] Taumarunui, [F] Taumarunui. [C] Taumarunui on the [G] Main Trunk [C] Line!
You can [C] get to Taumarunui going [F] North or going [C] South,
And you pull in there at midnight and there's [D] cinders in your [G] mouth,
got [C] cinders in your whiskers and a [F] cinder in your eye,
So you [C] pop off to Refreshments for a [D] cuppa tea and [G] pie,
in [C] Taumarunui [F] Taumarunui. [C] Taumarunui on the [G] Main Trunk [C] Line!
[C] There's a sheila in Refreshments and she's [F] pouring cups of [C] tea,
And my heart jumps like a rabbit when [D] she pours a cup for [G] me.
She's got [C] hair of flaming yellow and [F] lips of flaming' red,
And I'll [C] love that flaming sheila till [D] I'm up and gone and [G] dead,
From [C] Taumarunui [F] Taumarunui. [C] Taumarunui on the [G] Main Trunk [C] Line!
[C] Now you can get a job in Wellington [F] or get a job up [C] North,
But you can't in Taumarunui though you [D] try for all [G] you're worth.
If I want [C] to see this sheila I've got [F] to take the train,
Get ten [C] minutes for refreshments then [D] they cart me [G] off again,
From [C] Taumarunui [F] Taumarunui. [C] Taumarunui on the [G] Main Trunk [C] Line!
[C] Well they took me on as Fireman on the [F] Limited Express,
Add I [C] thought that she'd be Jake but she's [D] all a flamin' [G] mess
The [C] sheila didn't like me though I [F] thought she'd be a gift,
But she's [C] gone and changed her duty now and [D] works the daylight [G] shift, in [C] Taumarunui [F] Taumarunui. [C] Taumarunui on the [G] Main Trunk [C] Line!
[C] I'm an ordinary joker, growing [F] old before me time
'Cause me[C] heart's in Ta'm'runui on the [D] Main Trunk [G] Line.
In [C] Ta'm'r'nui, [F] Ta'm'r'nui, [C] Ta'm'r'nui on the [G] main Trunk [C] Line,
In [C] Ta'm'r'nui, [F] Ta'm'r'nui, [C] Tamra-bloody-nui [G] on the Main [C] Trunk Line!
