TAUMARUNUI                  Peter Cape

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Intro: (tune = 2nd half of verse)

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I'm an ordinary joker, getting old before me time,
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'Cause me heart's in Taumarunui on the Main Trunk line.


Chorus:
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  Taumarunui, Taumarunui,
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  Taumarunui on the Main Trunk line.

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You can get to Taumarunui going North or going South,
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And you wind up there at midnight and there's cinders in your mouth,
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And there's cinders in your whiskers and a cinder in your eye,
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So you pop off to Refreshments for a cuppa tea and pie, in...

Chorus


There's this shiela in Refreshments and she's serving cups of tea,
And me heart jumps like a rabbit when she serves a cup for me.
She's got hair of flamin' yeller, and lips of flamin' red,
And I'll love that flamin' shiela till I'm up and gone and dead, in...

Chorus


Now you can get a job in Wellington or get a job up North,
But you can't in Taumarunui though you try for all you're worth.
If I want to see this shiela I've got to take a train,
Get ten minutes for refresments then they cart me off again, from...

Chorus


Well they took me on as Fireman on the Limited Express,
Add I thought that she'd be Jake but now she's all a flamin' mess.
That shiela wouldn't take to me. I thought she'd be a gift,
But she's gone and changed her duty hours and works the daylight shift in...

Chorus

Outro: (= Intro)
So I'm an ordinary joker, getting old before me time,
'Cause me heart's in Taumarunui on the Main Trunk line.

Chorus