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