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15 May 04 - 03:56 PM (#1186362) Subject: Lyr Req: Bridal Train From: GUEST,Guest Does anyone have the lyrics to a song called 'Bridal Train' It's about Australian girls who married US sailors during World War II and their passage was paid to go to their husbands in America after the war. It was recorded by an Australian group - don't know their name. Cheers, Ann |
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16 May 04 - 02:06 AM (#1186626) Subject: ADDPOP: Bridal Train (the Waifs) From: Joe Offer Hi, Ann - I haven't heard the song, but apparently it's by an Australian group named The Waifs. The recording is available here (click), the source of the following quote.This beautiful song tells the story of Vikki and Donna's grandmother who married a 'Yankee Sailor' and at the US Navy's expense boarded the Bridal Train to Sydney and then by ship to San Francisco to be re-united with her husband. The single also includes 'Strings Of Steel' and a live version This site (click) has lyrics:
(The Waifs) A telegram arrived today, Well 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 its 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 The 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 of her land She's gone to meet her sailor man No time for sad goodbyes, Well she held her mother as she cried And then waited there in the Freo Rain, To climb aboard the bridal train Well she was holding her future in her hand Yeah the faded photo of her man Catch a sailor if you can The war bride leaves a southern land All the girls around Australia Married to a Yankee Sailor The 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 of her land She's gone to meet her sailor man Now this is the story of those starry nights Through desert plains and city lights Through burning sun and driving rain They wept aboard the bridal train All the girls around Australia Married to a Yankee sailor The 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 of her land She's gone to meet her sailor man of 'Sweetness'. |
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16 May 04 - 08:09 AM (#1186692) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridal Train - Oz girls marry WWII GIs From: Sandra in Sydney Freo = Freemantle, where the America'c Cup races were held (in 1982??), the port of Perth. sandra |
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17 May 04 - 12:29 AM (#1187041) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridal Train - Oz girls marry WWII GIs From: Bob Bolton G'day Sandra, Actually: Fremantle ... pronounced Fr'uh'mantle ... named after the Pommy Admiral who, in 1829, took possession of the western end of Australia ... the half the Dutch thought was New Holland - and we now call Western Australia. Regards, Bob Bolton |
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17 May 04 - 06:06 AM (#1187116) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridal Train - Oz girls marry WWII GIs From: rich-joy 's'funny - it was always pronounced "FREE-mantle" as I was growing up in Perth!! The "Fr-MANtle" pronunciation was only from the posh "Eastern Staters"!!! But then, maybe I was just from the wrong side of the tracks ... Cheers! R-J |
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17 May 04 - 09:11 AM (#1187186) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridal Train - Oz girls marry WWII GIs From: Bob Bolton G'day R-J, Well ... that probably was the way the dear old Admiral pronounced the family name ... and it was the way my Pommy grandfather (who was stationed just off there, with coastal artillery) at the start of WW II pronounced it ... but that doesn't necessarily mean the locals agreed! Regards, Bob |
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17 May 04 - 09:33 AM (#1187190) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridal Train - Oz girls marry WWII GIs From: GUEST Thanks for the words, ya'll. I am a folk musician from Virginia in the states, and my Mum was one of the War Brides. She was from Ballerat. My first visit to Oz was last year. Her ship was diverted for D Day and she got dropped off in New York instead of San Francisco. They were 6 weeks late arriving, and she knew no one in the states, but her in-laws in Virginia. About as far away as Ballerat and Sydney. Great Stories to tell. Thanks again. Heely |
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17 May 04 - 09:51 AM (#1187198) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridal Train - Oz girls marry WWII GIs From: Sandra in Sydney oops for the typo - I do know how to spell (some words, that is!!) & my sister is one of those ring-ins - she migrated to Perth in 1976 & got to Freo a few years later. sandra |