Key: C major•
Verse 1
on fields all ripe with corn
F
G
Sixteen years I counted on
C
F
the rising of the sun
Am
G
I'm just waiting for the bus
F
C
to take me home
Of all the Disunited States di
E
Am
vided black and white
C
Em
Louisiana taught me how
F
G
to think and how to fight
F
G
C
Sixty of us kids aboard the number 91
F
Am
G
I'm just waiting for the bus
F
C
to take me home
Verse 2
C
E
Bus was barely moving we were set
C
Em
F
Watched 200 white boys throwing bottles,
F
G
Trapped and scared together there
C
F
was nowhere we could run
Am
G
I'm just waiting for the bus
F
C
to take me home
Boy outside the bus,
E
Am
an automatic in his hand
C
Em
We heard a single shot and then
F
G
we all just hit the ground
F
G
I never pulled a trigger and
C
F
I never held a gun
Am
G
I'm just waiting for the bus
F
C
to take me home
Verse 3
C
E
White boy lay there bleeding cops
C
Em
Never found a thing to say
F
G
that it was one of us
F
G
Took us down the station they
C
F
were beating us for fun
Am
G
I'm just waiting for the bus
F
C
to take me home
Gun produced from nowhere
E
Am
pinned the crime on me
C
Em
A lynchmob for a jury meant
F
G
they'd never set me free
F
G
Thirty years in prison for
C
F
a crime I haven't done
Am
G
I'm just waiting for the bus
F
C
to take me home
Verse 4
E
Am
thousand times or more
C
Em
F
Stranded like the man who never knew
F
G
Waiting for the pardon but
C
F
the pardon never comes
Am
G
I'm just waiting for the bus
F
C
to take me home.
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