Chumbawamba – Waiting For The Bus (Guitar)
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[Verse 1]
C E Am My name is Gary Tyler, Louisiana-born C Em F G Shadow of the poplar tree on fields all ripe with corn F G C F Sixteen years I counted on the rising of the sun Am G F C I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[Verse 2]
C E Am Of all the Disunited States divided black and white C Em F G Louisiana taught me how to think and how to fight F G C F Sixty of us kids aboard the number 91 Am G F C I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[Verse 3]
C E Am Bus was barely moving we were set upon and stopped C Em F G Watched 200 white boys throwing bottles, cans and rocks F G C F Trapped and scared together there was nowhere we could run Am G F C I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[Verse 4]
C E Am Boy outside the bus, an automatic in his hand C Em F G We heard a single shot and then we all just hit the ground F G C F I never pulled a trigger and I never held a gun Am G F C I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[Verse 5]
C E Am White boy lay there bleeding cops they searched the bus C Em F G Never found a thing to say that it was one of us F G C F Took us down the station they were beating us for fun Am G F C I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[Verse 6]
C E Am Gun produced from nowhere pinned the crime on me C Em F G A lynchmob for a jury meant they'd never set me free F G C F Thirty years in prison for a crime I haven't done Am G F C I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[Verse 7]
C E Am Waiting here the world has turned a thousand times or more C Em F G Stranded like the man who never knew they'd stopped the war F G C F Waiting for the pardon but the pardon never comes Am G F C I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home.