1911. A Paekakariki Haunting Song

Em fast 4/4 - 120 bpm (scrolling at 25)
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There's fog drifting over the platform

There's mist havngng over the tracks

It's 19 minutes past midnight

	C
at the	south end signal

Fm
box

There's a full moon and a cloudless sky

A trillion stars burn bright

But there's an ice cold chill up the back of my spine

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at the	south end signal

Fm
box

	Bm
It was	the 19th of

December

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in	19

Fm
19

	C
At	19 minutes past

midnight

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when the	signal boy took his

G	Fm
life

They say he'd been to Gallippolli

Came home and worked on the lines

changing tracks and swtiching points

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at the	south end signal

Fm
box

He fell asleep at midnight

the points had not been set

he heard the trains but it was too late


at the	south end signal


box

	Bm
There was a	freight train going north and a

frieght train going south

the crash work the entire

Fm
town

the drivers jumped clear

in the nick of time

so there was no loss o life

G	Fm
except the signal boy

When he saw the crash he feared the worst

he used his pocket knife

his blood ran down the wooden stairs

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of the	south end signal

Fm
box

They say his spirit never left the scene

the was tormented by remorse

you can heard him cry on a full moon night

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at the	south end signal

Fm
box

Hey Charlie you can

let this one

go now

Hey Charlie we can

let this one

slide

	C
It was	a hundred years

ago

	C
and	no one even

G
died at the time

Hey Charlie you can

sleep

easy now

Hey Charlie you can

let this one

go now

Hey Charlie we can

let this one

slide

	C
You can	stop tormenting your

self now

	C
and	stop tormenting

G
this town

Hey Charlie you can

sleep

easy now

Hey Charlie you can

sleep

Em
easy