The Chinatown Bus Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][G][D][G][D][G][D]
[G][D][G]

[Verse 1]
[G]I caught the bus in Chinatown
And slept the whole way up [Em]I-95
The driver, cut and weaved so crazy,
just his luck kept him [D]alive
And I guess I believed his rhythm on that
morning after [G]New Year's [D]Eve

[Verse 2]
And [G]I remember Shanghai
How I wasn't sure just what
was safe to [Em]eat
The chickens pecked and wandered
at the barefoot ankles of
[D]The children hawking figurines
of workers smiling
What's the Chinese [G]word
for [D]cheese?

[Verse 3]
[G]Watched a sidewalk butcher
His instinctive understanding
Made the car[Em]cass snap and clarify
Beneath his nimble hands that held
The [D]knife so long, so many times,
the handles changed to
Shapes just like his [G]fingers and his [D]palms

[Verse 4]
And [G]I, I am a broken glass
Shards upon the floor
[Gsus4]Won't hol[G]d nothing anymore

[Verse 5]
And I, I am a [G]pas[D]senger [G]tonight
I watch the [D]world

[Interlude 1]
From his side
[C][D][G]

[Verse 6]
[G]It's 2AM in Tokyo
And still too soon to call back to
[Em]The people who will soon begin
the day I polished off and I will
[D]Walk a mile amidst the neon
lights that advertise but
I don't know [G]just what they [D]sell

[Verse 7]
I [G]tell the taxi driver
To the park, a higher tone
And his [Em]gloves are pristine white just like
the girls I used to know would wear
[D]To dance their first cotillion
Every single one of them
named [G]Jennifer[D]

[Verse 8]
[G]I clutched at the same Christopher
I picked up at some country ab[Em]bey
Long ago when I believed he'd keep
me safe and make [G]me [C]happy
[D]But it seems the luck he brings
Is not the common currency
of [G]penny in Japan

[Verse 9]
[D]And I, [G]I am a broken glass
Shards upon the floor
Won't hold nothing anymore

[Verse 10]
And I, I am a [D]passenger to[G]night
I watch the [D]world

[Interlude 2]
From his side
[D][C][Cm][C][G]

[Verse 11]
[C]And [G]I, [C]I a[G]m a broken glass
Shards upon the floor
Won't [D]hold [G]nothing anymore

[Outro 1]
Anymore
[G][D][G]