Bridal Train

A telegram arrived today

It's time to catch the Monterey

'Cause the man I wed, he waits for me

And a daughter that he's yet to see

US Navy beamed it's message

Will deliver brides on a one way passage

It made big news across the nation

The bridal train leaves from Perth station

All the girls around Australia

Married to a Yankee sailor

Your fare is paid across the sea

To the home of the brave and the land of the free

From west to east, the young girls came

All aboard the bridal train

It was a farewell crossing over land

She's gone to meet her sailor man

No time for sad goodbyes

She held her mother as she cried

And then waited there in the Frio rain

To climb aboard the bridal train

Well, she was holding her future in her hand

The faded photo of her man

Catch a sailor if you can

The war bride leaves her southern land

All the girls around Australia

Married to a Yankee sailor

Your fare is paid across the sea

To the home of the brave and the land of the free

From west to east, the young girls came

All aboard the bridal train

It was a farewell crossing over land

She's gone to meet her sailor man

This is the story of those starry nights

Through desert plains and city lights

Through burning sun and driving rain

She wept aboard the bridal train

All the girls around Australia

Married to a Yankee sailor

Your fare is paid across the sea

To the home of the brave and the land of the free

From west to east, the young girls came

All aboard the bridal train

It was a farewell crossing over land

She's gone to meet her sailor man