Bus Driver chords by
Derek Webb
Derek Webb

N/A
Key: F major
Intro 1
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C#m
C#m
Bsus4
Bsus4
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C#m
C#m
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Bsus4
Bsus4
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Verse 1
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So, today
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C#m
it’s 40 years since I first pulled out of here
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Bsus4
Bsus4
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I al ways knew there’d come a day
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I’d have to pump the brakes
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I love this job,
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C#m
I loved every morning stop
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Bsus4
Bsus4
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And every single story I
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picked up along the way
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It went fast and it went slow,
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was a long, long way to go
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Bsus4
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But trust me when I tell you,
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Bsus4
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good things come to those who wait
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Charles and Judith never did,
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C#m
C#m
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C#m
not one middle school kid
Bsus4
Bsus4
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Bsus4
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’Cause I always showed up right on time,
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oh I was never late
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C#m
C#m
It may not sound like much
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But you never know the
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C#m
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lives you touch
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C#m
By nothing more than showing up
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Even on the days you feel so small
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Oh, it turns out it all matters after all
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I’ve probably been to Sao Paulo,
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C#m
C#m
a thousand times to San Antone
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If you add up all the circles that
I drove around this town
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Guess I didn’t get far
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C#m
but I never hit a car
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And everybody got where they
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were going safe & sound
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C#m
C#m
It may not sound like much
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But you never know the lives you touch
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C#m
By nothing more than showing up
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F#m
Even on the days you feel so small
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Oh, it turns out it all matters
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C#m
F#
F#
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G#sus4
G#sus4
after all
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G#
C#m
C#m
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F#
I used to look around and just see
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strangers crowding in and out
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G#sus4
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G#
A means to an end
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C#m
But I can see it all now
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F#
I’ve always had the best seat in the house
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G#m
to see where we’vebeen
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G#sus4
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F#m
And see just how far we’ve come
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Bsus4
together
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Sheet cake on paper plates,
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C#m
Judith’s family came
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Bsus4
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I dropped her off at her last stop,
I guess it’s been a year
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Now gathered in this place
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C#m
on my very last day
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A few sweet souls in orbit and the bus
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that brought us here
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And, that may not sound
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C#m
like much
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But you never know the
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lives you touch
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C#m
Just by always showing up
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F#m
Even on the days you feel so small
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Oh, it turns out it all matters
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C#m
C#m
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You know it really matters
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Oh yes, it all matters after
Outro 1
all
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C#m
C#m
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