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