The Blackpool Belle

C G Oh the Blackpool Belle was a getaway train that went from Northern stations G C What a beautiful sight on a Saturday night bound for the illuminations C F No mothers and dads just girls and lads young and fancy free F C G C Out for the laughs on the Golden Mile at Blackpool by the sea C F C I remember - very well F A Dm All the happy gang aboard the Blackpool Belle C E Am I remember them pals of mine, when I ride the Blackpool line Dm G C And the songs we sang together on the Blackpool Belle C G Little Piggy Greenfield he was there he thought he was mighty slick G C He bought a hat on the Golden Mile the hat said "Kiss Me Quick" C F Piggy was a lad for all the girls but he drank too much beer F C G C He made a pass at a Liverpool lass and she pushed him off the pier C G Ice cream Sally could never settle down she lived for her Knickerbocker glories G C Till she clicked with a bloke who said he was broke but she loved his Ice cream stories C F Sally took it all in with a smile and a grin she fell for sailor Jack F C G C They went for a trip to the Isle of Man and never did come back C G Now the Blackpool Belle has a thousand tales if they could all be told G C Many of these I will recall as I am growing old C F They were happy days and I miss the times we'd pull the curtains down F C G C And the Passion Wagon would steam back home and we would go to town