Bridal Train

Barry and Laurel told me about one of their favorite bands, The Waifs. I especially like this song. It was written by band member, Vikki Thorn, about her grandmother who was a war bride. She married a US sailor after a very brief engagement and then he was sent away. One night around midnight she received a telegraph saying a train was leaving to take her to a ship that would take her to her new husband. The first US troops arrived in Australia at Brisbane, Queensland, on Christmas Eve, 1941. Almost one million American servicemen passed through Australia during the war. About 7,000 Australian women married their American boy friends and travelled to the USA as war brides.
If you take away the war and replace planes with ships I can relate to moving to the other side of the world to be with the man you love.