Biography:
The British duo, properly known as Michael Flanders & Donald Swann, was composed of the actor and singer Michael Flanders and the composer, pianist and linguist Donald Swann, who collaborated in writing and performing comic songs.
Flanders and Swann's songs are characterised by wit, gentle satire, complex rhyming schemes, and memorable choruses. They wrote over eighty comic songs together.
Between 1956 and 1967 they performed some of their songs in their long-running two-man revues At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat.
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Intro - F Dm Gm C x3
Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...
F Dm Gm C Gm C
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
F Dm Gm C Gm C
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
Am Dm
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
Gm A7
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
Dm G
We won't be meeting again
C
On the Slow Train.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
Am Dm
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
Gm A7
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
Dm G
I won't be going again
C
On the Slow Train.
Am
On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
Bm Em
The grass grows high
Dm Em Dm
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside, and Trouble House Halt.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
Am Dm
No one departs, no one arrives
Gm A7
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
Dm G
They've all passed out of our lives
C
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.
Fades out - F Dm Gm C
Cockermouth for Buttermere, on the Slow Train
Armley Moor Arram,
Pye Hill and Somercotes, on the Slow Train
Windmill End.
Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...
F Dm Gm C Gm C
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
F Dm Gm C Gm C
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
Am Dm
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
Gm A7
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
Dm G
We won't be meeting again
C
On the Slow Train.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
Am Dm
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
Gm A7
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
Dm G
I won't be going again
C
On the Slow Train.
Am
On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
Bm Em
The grass grows high
Dm Em Dm
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside, and Trouble House Halt.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
F Dm Gm C Gm C
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
Am Dm
No one departs, no one arrives
Gm A7
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
Dm G
They've all passed out of our lives
C
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.
Fades out - F Dm Gm C
Cockermouth for Buttermere, on the Slow Train
Armley Moor Arram,
Pye Hill and Somercotes, on the Slow Train
Windmill End.
Flash Cadillac A (...)
Flash Strato
Flashbulb Fires
Flashguns
Flat Duo Jets
Flavio Giurato
Flavio Oreglio
Flavio y la Mand (...)
Flea
Flee the Seen