Transit chords by Richard Shindell

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Richard Shindell - Transit


CAPO: 2nd Fret


INTRO: BB


The merge from the turnpike was murder, but it's never a cinch
                        C majorC
It was Friday at five, and no one was giving an inch
                   D MajorD
They squeezed and they edged and they glared
C majorC           D MajorD     C majorC
Half of them clearly impaired by rage or exhaustion
               BB
The rest were just touchy as hell

Somewhere near Paterson everything slowed to a crawl
                         C majorC
The all-news station was thanking someone for the call
                 D MajorD
It's a van from St. Agnes' choir
     C majorC               D MajorD
There's a nun out there changing a tire
    C majorC                      BB    A minorAm
By the time they got by her, tempers were out of control


                        C majorC
So they all hit the gas in a dash for position
                          E minorEm
Bobbing and weaving and flashing their high-beams

Flipping the bird and screaming obscenities
 C majorC                    BB
A augmentedA well-insured hoard, hell-bent on Saturday


And so they continued, west-bound and into the sun
                  C majorC
Law and decorum constraining nary a one
               D MajorD
By then it was devil-may-care
   C majorC           D MajorD
Not a one even vaguely aware
       C majorC                      BB   A minorAm
That they had come all the way to the Delaware Water Gap

                             C majorC
But how had it happened? They had all missed their exits

How had it happened? Was it some kind of vortex?
  E minorEm
And in they all went, bumper to bumper
C majorC
Faster and faster, no sign of a trooper
  G+G
And in they all went, like sheep to the slaughter
D MajorD
Bankers and carpenters and doctors and lawyers
  E minorEm
And in they all went, families in minivans
C majorC
Democrats, Republicans, weekend militiamen
   G+G
They followed the river, and rounded the bend
    D MajorD
Between Minsi and Tammany and into their destiny
E minorEm
Lying in ambush, right there before them
  C majorC                BB
The angry old sun right on the horizon


Sister Maria tightened the bolts of the spare
                         C majorC
She said a quick prayer and put the old van into gear
                  D MajorD
Thank god that the traffic was light
    C majorC            D MajorD
If she hurried she might not be late
     C majorC                        BB    A minorAm
For that evening's performance at the state penitentiary


                           C majorC
She entered the common room and there was her choir

Altos and baritones, basses and tenors
E minorEm
Car thieves and crack dealers, mobsters and murderers
C majorC
Husbands and sons, fathers and brothers
  G+G
And so it began in glorious harmony
D MajorD                     E minorEm
Softly and tenderly calling for you and me

The interstate crying way off in the distance
    C majorC
And the sun going down through the bars of the prison
   G+G                           D MajorD
They poured out their souls, they poured out their memories

They poured out their hopes for what's left of eternity
  E minorEm                 C majorC
To sister Maria, her soul like a prism

For the light of forgiveness on all of their faces


OUTRO: BB

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