{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":897202,"song":"Chinatown Bus","artist":"Bishop Allen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11607782-chinatown-bus-chords-by-bishop-allen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/897202?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI caught the bus in Chinatown[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd slept the whole way up I-95[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe driver, cut and weaved so crazy, just his luck kept him alive and I [/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nguess I believe his rhythm on that morning after New Year's Eve[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I remember Shanghai[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHow I wasn't sure just what was safe to eat[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe chickens pecked and wandered at the barefeet of the children hawking [/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfigurines of workers smiling[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhat's the Chinese word for cheese?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWatched a sidewalk butcher[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHis instinctive understanding made the carcass snap and clarify beneath his[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nnimble hand that held the knife so long, so many times, the handles' changed [/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nto shapes just like his fingers and his palms[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I, I am a broken glass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nShards upon the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWon't hold nothing anymore[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I, I am a broken glass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nShards upon the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWon't hold nothing anymore[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnymore[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's 2AM in Tokyo[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd still too soon to call back to the people who will soon begin the day I [/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\npolished off and I will walk a mile amidst the neon lights that advertise [/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nbut I don't know just what they sell[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI tell the taxi driver[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo the park, a higher tone[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd his gloves his pristine white just like the girls I used to know would [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nwear to dance their first cotillion[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEvery single one of them named Jennifer[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI clutched at the Saint Christopher[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI picked up at some country abbey long ago when I believed he'd keep me safe [/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand make me happy but it seems the luck he brings is not the common currency [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\na penny in Japan[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I, I am a broken glass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nShards upon the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWon't hold nothing anymore[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I, I am a broken glass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nShards upon the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWon't hold nothing anymore[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I, I am a broken glass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nShards upon the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWon't hold nothing anymore[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnymore[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["C","Em","F","Am","D","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}