Key: F major
Intro 1
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A
Verse 1
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It's midnight at the depot
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Bm
G
D
And I drag my bags in line.
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A
But the bus won't be on time.
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C#m
Everybody's looking
G
Em
half alive.
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A
Later on the bus arrives.
Verse 2
A
They punch my ticket
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G
And we move out past the lights.
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C
Come on Driver, where's the heat?
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A
It's cold out in the night.
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C#m
I keep telling to myself that
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Em
I don't care.
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G
Come to morrow, I'll be there.
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Verse 3
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C#m
It's a dog of a way to get around.
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F#m
Take the Greyhound.
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G
It's a dog gone easy way
Verse 4
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G
So I look across the aisle.
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C
The window's frosted, I can't sleep
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A
But the girl returns my smile.
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Em
I knew back home.
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G
So I doze. So it goes.
Interlude 1
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F#m
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E
C#m
D
F#m
Bm
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Verse 5
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G
at the rest stop.
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C
The waitress being cozy with
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A
the highway cop.
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C#m
My coffee's tasting tired.
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C#m
A
C#m
F#m
My eyes roll over dead.
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Em
E
gas out of my head.
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Am
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Oh, to be in bed.
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You got me driving.
I'm on your Greyhound bus and
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A
you're driving.
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Verse 6
But there's nothing new about Greyhounds.
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Am
A
Nothing new about
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A
feeling down.
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A
Nothing new about putting off
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C
G
Or putting myself on.
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
the loser hides
that all my life's a ride.
and make myself some friends
Interlude 3
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Verse 8
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It's got to be the going not the get
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F#m
ting there that's good
That's a thought for keep
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Em
ing if I could.
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Bm
It's got to be the going not
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the getting there that's good.
Outro 1
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