A SINGER has written a satirical love song for her commuting husband to cheer him up amid the ongoing train strikes.

Genevieve Harris, from Lewes, wrote and performed the song and commissioned Brighton-based musician Reid Savage to play the guitar and create the music for her.

She told how it was one of the first times she has sung since she was “in a church choir growing up”.

Mrs Harris said: “It's tongue in cheek and I just wanted to make my husband smile. I think it worked.

“The song was meant as a love token and a thank you for my husband Tim who has been indefatigable in the face of the rail disruptions, battling in and out of Sussex and back home to us in Lewes.

“After 11 or 12 at night I often hear him whistling down the lane before he lets himself in and then he is completely present and wonderful with the children when he sees them for an early breakfast before he leaves for work again first thing in the morning.”

Due to the most recent strikes, her husband Tim Harris has been “sofa surfing” in London so the family only get to spend time together properly at the weekends.

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Mrs Harris (pictured above) made the music video with a collection of photos taken at Lewes station when it was all shut, with no trains or passengers on the platform.

The full time parent said: “In my view, the railways are an essential public service and should be operated in a public, spirited way.

“It may be that they should never have been privatised and that we should rethink this but this dispute is supposed to be about train guards and it does seem to have been hijacked for wider political objectives, with the traveller just stuck in the middle.”

Mrs Harris says that she will now consider writing and singing on a regular basis.