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