Bus To Augusta chords by Emily Ann Roberts

• Capo on 1st

Key: F

🚌 Intro:

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🚌 Verse 1:
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One night on a bus to Augusta
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While the neighbors were fast asleep
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She left a dog for a south-bound Greyhound
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Took a breath and a window seat

🚌 Chorus:
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One night on a bus to Augusta


🚌 Verse 2:
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One night on a full moon summer
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Black label ragin' in his eyes
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He laid his hands, not the healin' kind, on her
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Left her bleedin' for the eighty-first time


🚌 Chorus:
    D          A         E
One night on a full moon summer


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She slipped a little somethin' in the cornbread mix
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Gave a little smile as he licked his lips
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His eyes gettin' heavy as the watch hand ticks down
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Five, four, three, two


🚌 Verse 3:
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One night, in a stroke of genius
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She made a call to her sheriff friend
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Turns out when you're drugged-up sleepin'
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Fingerprints ain't hard to get


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Now, the town had an unsolved murder
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Just lacked a little evidence
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Sheriff planted those prints on the trigger
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And it was just enough to pin it on him


🚌 Chorus:
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All twelve jurors said he held that gun
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The gavel went down and the case was won
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Cameras rollin' live and reporters goin' on in
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Five, four, three, two


Instrumental 🚌 Bridge:
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🚌 Bridge:
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Five, four, three, two
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One night on a bus to Augusta


🚌 Verse 5:
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One night on a bus to Augusta
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She finally made her peace
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Left a dog for a southbound Greyhound
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Took a breath and a window seat (Mm-mm)


🚌 Outro:
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Mm (Mm-mm)
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One night (Bus to Augusta), oh, she made her peace
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(Out on the bus to Augusta) Mm-hm
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Mm-mm-mm