Second Class, Wait Here (1996 Digital Remaster) - Slim Dusty
Written by：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 oft in 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
As I waited there and suffered waited there for many a day
Slaved beneath a phantom signboard telling all my hopes to stay
Ah 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'