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