home_of_the_brave tessa A telegram arrived today, It's time to catch the Monterey cause the man I wed, he waits for me and the daughter that he's yet to see.   The US Navy beamed its message, 'We'll 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 of her land she's gone to meet her sailor man.     ~~~~~~~~~~~~ No time for sad goodbyes, she held her mother as she cried and then waited in the Freo rain to climb aboard the Bridal Train.  She was holding her future in her hands, The faded photo of a 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 of her 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, They 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 of her land she's gone to meet her sailor man.   ... Bridal Train (Vikki Simpson, The Waifs) 040414 ... marked . 040420 what's it to you? who go blather from