Waiting For The Bus chords by
Chumbawamba
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Key: C major
Verse 1
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G

My name is Gary Tyler,
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C

Louisiana- born
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G

Shadow of the poplar tree
on fields all ripe with corn
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F

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G

Sixteen years I counted on
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C

F
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the rising of the sun
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Am

G
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I'm just waiting for the bus
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F

C
C

to take me home
Of all the Disunited States di
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E

Am
Am

vided black and white
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C

Em
Em

Louisiana taught me how
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G
G

to think and how to fight
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G
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C
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Sixty of us kids aboard the number 91
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F

Am
Am

G
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I'm just waiting for the bus
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C
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to take me home
Verse 2
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C

E
E

Bus was barely moving we were set
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upon and stopped
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C

Em
Em

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F

Watched 200 white boys throwing bottles,
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cans and rocks
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G
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Trapped and scared together there
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C

F
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was nowhere we could run
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Am

G
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I'm just waiting for the bus
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F

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C

to take me home
Boy outside the bus,
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an automatic in his hand
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C

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Em

We heard a single shot and then
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G
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we all just hit the ground
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G
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I never pulled a trigger and
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I never held a gun
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G
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I'm just waiting for the bus
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C
C

to take me home
Verse 3
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C

E
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White boy lay there bleeding cops
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they searched the bus
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Em
Em

Never found a thing to say
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F

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G

that it was one of us
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Took us down the station they
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were beating us for fun
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G
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I'm just waiting for the bus
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C
C

to take me home
Gun produced from nowhere
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pinned the crime on me
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C

Em
Em

A lynchmob for a jury meant
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G
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they'd never set me free
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Thirty years in prison for
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a crime I haven't done
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Am

G
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I'm just waiting for the bus
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C
C

to take me home
Verse 4
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C

Waiting here the world has turned a
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Am
Am

thousand times or more
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C

Em
Em

F
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Stranded like the man who never knew
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G

they'd stopped the war
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G

Waiting for the pardon but
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the pardon never comes
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Am

G
G

I'm just waiting for the bus
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C
C

to take me home.

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