Well my friends
I’m gonna take you back.
There’s a teenage girl
Standing by the track.
Big steam train’s
Got a lot to say
Brings home the love
That never went away.
Here’s tuppence
For the school fund.
Straight home to your tea.
Hold on to your sister’s hand
She’ll bring you home to me.
That’s the way it’s meant to be.
Daddy, my daddy platform three.
What will you be
When your a man
My precious little laddie?
The lord mayor
Or the chauffeur behind the wheel,
The golfer or the caddy?
Well he looked up
And said to them
Listen to me please
Just someone
To meet me off the train
Would set my mind at ease.
That’s the way it’s meant to be.
Daddy, my daddy platform three.
It’s so easy in the movies
A black hat for the baddie,
A white one for the sheriff
And the good guys,
And the railway childrens’ daddy.
They say that love will find you,
I hope that it finds me.
I’ll go down to the waiting room
And search lost property.
That’s the way it’s meant to be.
Daddy, my daddy platform three.
Maybe one day
I’ll find the right words,
I hope it’s not too late.
The young girl
Has got kids of her own now.
She’s left me to my fate.
Shall meet me at the station
Or someone in her place
And when the
Smoke clouds roll away
I’ll see love on that face.
That’s the way it’s meant to be.
Daddy, my daddy platform three.
That’s the way it’s meant to be.
Daddy, my daddy platform three.
(lyrics by Vin Murtagh ©2011)
