Waiting For The Bus Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
My name [G]is Gary Tyler,
Louisi[C]ana- born
Shadow [G]of the poplar tree
on fields all ripe with corn
[F]Sixteen years I [G]counted on
[C]the rising of [F]the sun
I'm just [Am]waiting for [G]the bus
to take me [F]home[C]
Of all the Disunited States di
[E]vided black and [Am]white
[C]Louisiana [Em]taught me how
[F]to think and how [G]to fight
[F]Sixty of us [G]kids aboard the num[C]ber 91
[F]I'm just [Am]waiting for [G]the bus
to take me [F]home[C]

[Verse 2]
Bus was barely [C]moving we [E]were set
upon [Am]and stopped
[C]Watched [Em]200 white boys throwing [F]bottles,
cans and [G]rocks
[F]Trapped and scared to[G]gether there
was [C]nowhere we could [F]run
I'm just [Am]waiting for [G]the bus
to take me [F]home[C]
Boy outside the bus,
an auto[E]matic in [Am]his hand
We [C]heard a single [Em]shot and then
we [F]all just hit [G]the ground
I [F]never pulled [G]a trigger and
I [C]never held a [F]gun
I'm just [Am]waiting for [G]the bus
to take me [F]home[C]

[Verse 3]
White boy lay there [C]bleeding [E]cops
they searched the [Am]bus
[C]Never found [Em]a thing to say
that [F]it was one [G]of us
[F]Took us down the sta[G]tion they
were [C]beating us [F]for fun
I'm just [Am]waiting for [G]the bus
to take me [F]home[C]
Gun produced from nowhere
[E]pinned the crime on [Am]me
[C]A lynchmob for a[Em] jury meant
they'd [F]never set me [G]free
[F]Thirty years in [G]prison for
[C]a crime I haven't [F]done
I'm just [Am]waiting for [G]the bus
to take me [F]home[C]

[Verse 4]
Waiting here [C]the world has turned a
[E]thousand times or [Am]more
[C]Stranded like [Em]the man who never [F]knew
they'd stopped [G]the war
[F]Waiting for [G]the pardon but
the par[C]don never [F]comes
I'm just [Am]waiting for [G]the bus
to take me [F]home.[C]