Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
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C#
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Verse 1
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little old man staring down the road
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C#
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he's getting kinda cold
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C#
Bus finally gets there,
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C#
G#m
B
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he got nowhere to sit down
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B
F#
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And the driver said, "You can stand right here behind me
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or wait for the next one to come around"
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F#
G#m
And the old man says, "That's okay,
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C#
I'll stand
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I might look like a little old man to you
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G#m
B
But I've been riding this bus for
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C#sus4
years and years and years
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I don't even know where
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C#
"You don't know where this bus is going to?"
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B
Old man says, "No,
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G#m
Driver says, "You don't know where
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C#
G#m
this bus is going to?"
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Old man says,
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"I just want it to get me through
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it's gonna take me somewhere
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C#
G#m
it's gonna take me somewhere
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Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere,
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G#m
C#
somewhere"
Verse 2
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The bus is rolling along,
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outside it's looking kinda strange
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G#m
The Earth is shak ing,
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the clouds are breaking
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Everything is blue where
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it was gray
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B
A thousand rivers flood
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over fields of snow
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The driver looks back in the
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mirror for the old man
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B
"Where did he go, where did he go?
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C#
G#m
Oh, there he is
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C#
G#m
Hey, old man, old man, old man,
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you still don't know?"
C#
G#m
B
And the old man says, "No, I don't son,
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C#
G#m
B
but I'm happy to go"
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C#
Hey, "I'm staying on the ride,
D#
G#m
C#
G#m
B
it's gonna take me somewhere"
C#
G#m
B
C#
Hey, he said, "I'm staying on the ride,
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G#m
it's gonna take me somewhere
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Somewhere, somewhere,
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B
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somewhere, somewhere
Verse 3
with no name,
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knowing nothing, still I don't
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D#
I'm gonna give you a name'
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C#sus4
Oh,
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C#
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C#
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F#
"You can let me off here,
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son, thank you for the ride"
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F#
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And the driver said, "This is the middle of nowhere,
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sir,"
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He pulls off to the side
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And the old man says, "It might look that way to you,
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C#
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C#
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maybe it is"
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C#
G#m
B
Old man says, "It might look that way to you,
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B
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C#
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son, maybe it is,"
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it's gonna take you somewhere,"
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C#
Hey, hey, he said, "Stay on the ride,
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G#m
it's gonna take you somewhere
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Somewhere, somewhere,
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B
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somewhere, somewhere
C#
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G#m
It always takes you somewhere,
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gonna take you somewhere
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G#m
It always takes you somewhere,
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G#m
gonna take you somewhere
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G#m
It always takes you somewhere,
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gonna take you some where"
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B
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