Another Town Another Train is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA at KMH Studios. The song was released as a 7″ vinyl single in Japan in March 1973 to promote the group’s debut album Ring Ring; the single was also released with the same B-side (“People Need Love”) in Venezuela.
Another Town Another Train was also released as a single on Playboy Records in the USA, with “I Am Just A Girl” on the B-side, as a follow-up to the group’s first single “People Need Love”. It was released in South Africa and Rhodesia on the Sunshine label with “Rock’n Roll Band” on the B-side. The first release in the UK was on Abba’s first compilation album Greatest Hits.
Written and performed in the style of Simon and Garfunkel and The Bachelors, the melodic ballad tells of the song’s narrator leaving his love as “day is dawning”. It was recorded in German under the title “Wer im Wartesaal der Liebe steht” (with lyrics by Fred Jay), as the B-side to the German version of “Ring Ring”. With lyrics in Swedish by Stikkan Andersson, “En annan stad, en annan vän”, it was covered by dance band Schytts in 1974, and by fellow Eurovision participant Kikki Danielsson in 1991 on her album “Vägen hem till dej”.
Another Town, Another Train (1973)
Day is dawning and I must go
You’re asleep but still I’m sure, you’ll know
Why it had to end this way
You and I had a groovy time
But I told you somewhere down the line
You would have to find me gone
I just have to move along
Just another town, another train
Waiting in the morning rain
Lord give my restless soul a little patience
Just another town, another train
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations
When you wake I know you’ll cry
And the words I wrote to say goodbye
They won’t comfort you at all
But in time you will understand
That the dreams we dreamed were made of sand
For a no-good bum like me
To live is to be free
Just another town, another train
Waiting in the morning rain
Lord give my restless soul a little patience
Just another town, another train
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations
Just another town, another train
Waiting in the morning rain
Lord give my restless soul a little patience
Just another town, another train
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations
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