Greyhound Chords

Key: C Tuning: E A D G B E Intro: D A Verse 1: A F#m D G It's midnight at the depot and I drag my bags in line. D C G A Travelin' light, I got to go, but the bus won't be on time. F#m C#m G Em Everybody's looking half alive. D G A Later on the bus arrives. Verse 2: A F#m D G They punch my ticket, I find a seat and we move out past the lights. D C G A Come on Driver, where's your heat? It’s cold out in the night. F#m C#m G Em I keep telling to myself that I don’t care. D G A Come tomorrow l’ll be there.

Chorus: F#m D E C#m Take the Greyhound. It's a dog of a way to get around. D F#m Bm G A Take the Greyhound. It's a doggone easy way to get you down. Verse 3: A F#m D G I’m tired of watching this night go by, so I look across the aisle. D C G A The window's frosted, I can't sleep, but the girl returns my smile. F#m C#m G Em She reminds me of someone I knew back home. D G A So, I doze. So, it goes. Chorus: F#m D E C#m When you take the Greyhound. It's a dog of a way to get around. D F#m Bm G A Take the Greyhound. It's a doggone easy way to get you down. Verse 4: A F#m D G I'm wrinkled on my stool at the rest stop. D C G A ‘ waitress being cozy with the highway cop. F#m C#m F#m C#m My coffee's tasting tired. My eyes roll over dead. F#m C#m G Em E D A Got to go outside and get the gas out of my head. Oh, oh to be in bed. [Interlude] Am Bridge: Am You got me drivin'; you got me drivin'. Am I'm on your Greyhound bus and you're drivin'. Am But there's nothing new about Greyhounds. Am And there’s nothing new about feeling down. Am C G And there’s nothing new about “puttin' off" or puttin' myself on. G Am Whoa, Greyhound! Verse 5: Am Looking to tomorrow, that’s the way the loser hides; F I should have realized by now that all my life's a ride. D It's time to find some happy times and make myself a friend. F E Am I know there ain't no rainbows waiting when this journey ends. Whoa! Verse 6: A F#m D G Stepping off this dirty bus, ‘ first time I’ve understood D C G A ‘ got to be the goin’, not the “gettin' there” that's good. F#m C#m G Em That's a thought for keepin', if I could: D Bm E A “It's got to be the goin', not the “gettin' there” that's good”. Outro: A