Req. Songs about Buses

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: raredance
Date: 23 Sep 12 - 01:25 AM

Greyhound Bus by Mark Hobbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0v0JIoTwdo

Subject: Lyr Add: BACKSEAT OF A GREYHOUND BUS
From: raredance
Date: 23 Sep 12 - 01:21 AM

MEAN OLD GREYHOUND BUS by Willie Nelson


BACKSEAT OF A GREYHOUND BUS by Sara Evans

She wore a dress with cherries on it
Going somewhere where she'd be wanted
A town this small, all they do is talk
No wedding ring chipped fingernail polish
She always wished that she could go to college
But some dreams fade, they just slip away
She started to show a few months ago
And she had to go, that's how she wound up

On the backseat of a greyhound bus
Head hung down with the windows up
Staring at the rest of her life
She never thought this would be the place
Where she would find her saving grace
But she fell in love, she fell in love
On the backseat of a greyhound bus

Oh, yeah, yeah

Moon was full the stars were smilin'
God has a funny sense of timin'
The baby came on the interstate
Somewhere between Jackson and Memphis
She finally found what she'd been missing
She cried and laughed when the red lights flashed
Sweet baby girl,
she looked into the face of a new, the face of a brand new world

On the backseat of a Greyhound bus,
Heart so full that it could bust.
Starin' at the rest of her life.
She never thought this would be the place,
Where she would find her savin' grace,
But she fell in love; she fell in love,
On the backseat of a Greyhound Bus.

Sweet baby girl, she found a brand new world

On the backseat of a Greyhound bus,
Heart so full that it could bust.
Starin' at the rest of her life.
She never thought this would be the place,
Where she would find her savin' grace,
But she fell in love; she fell in love,
On the backseat of a Greyhound Bus.

She wore a dress with cherries on it
going somewhere where she'd be wanted

Hey yeah! Oh yeah,


HELL GREYHOUND BUS RIDE by Wesley Willis

It's Wednesday, April 2, 1997, at 12:00 PM
I took a Greyhound bus to Des Moines, Iowa
It was a six-hour profanity demon hellride
At 6:00 PM, the Greyhound bus arrived at the Des Moines bus station
Two of my music fans picked me up and drove me to Fort Dodge, Iowa

Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride

At 2:00 PM on Friday, April 4, 1997, I went on a radio show joyride
I whipped out my Technics KN3000 keyboard and sung four rock songs on 88.1 KICB
At 6:30 PM, I rode with my friends to Knights of Columbus for sound checking
At 9:30 PM, I got up on stage and sung twenty rock songs in front of 200 rock fans

Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride

At 11:20 AM on Saturday, April 5, 1997, I caught the Greyhound bus to Chicago, Illinois
The Greyhound bus left Des Moines, Iowa at 11:30 AM
It was an eight-hour profanity demon hellride without music
At 7:30 PM, the Greyhound bus arrived at the Chicago bus station
I then got off the intercity bus and yelled like a stupid fool

Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride
Hell Greyhound bus ride

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,Guest - Lin
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 08:54 PM

To: Musicmick:

You posted message about "Pity" that I am not including school buses in this search. Perhaps you can post that as a new thread if that interests you, but I am only interested in songs about public transportaton - buses (city buses or Greyhound,). I ride buses almost every day - 6 buses a day, (round trip), five days a week to work.

Also have known a few bus drivers as friends over the years who drive city buses, so since I am on buses so much, thought it would be intereting to find songs about public transportation, what we call fixed route buses.
Also, when I go out of town, I ride pubic transportation in other cities to get around.
Never rode a school bus before - we used to walk to school.

Thank you,
Lin

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,Guest - Lin
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 08:33 PM

To Guest Sturgeon:

Thanks! Watched the Youtube video after reading your post.
That's hilarious! So funny!

Thanks,
Lin

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Cool Beans
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 11:49 AM

"A Transport of Delight," by Flanders & Swann. ("On a London Transport, diesel-engine, 97-horsepower omnibus..." )

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Cool Beans
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 11:45 AM

"Bus Stop," by the Hollies.

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: musicmick
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 10:47 AM

Sorry to further limit your list but MTA is about an underground trolly line in Boston. Those cars run on tracks (above ground, as they get near Brookline, and below ground, as they near the city).
It's a pity you are omitting school bus songs. You could have included Bluebird references like "Hello, Bluebird", "Bluebird of Happiness", "Blue Skies", "Zippidy Doo Dah".

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 07:36 AM

'The wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round' and 'Summer Holiday' lol

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 05:27 AM

Fred Wedlock wrote 'Bristol Buses' - Its on My Space - http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=54852263&ac=now

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 10:07 PM

Heres my song about Sam, the big Red Tram

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2006/07/04/big_al_whittle_feature.shtml

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 07:46 PM

Hi Jack.

I wrote it myself, and as far as I'm concerned, they should never have torn up the tram-lines in the first place. As you can see from the mention of SMTs etc, it's placed quite firmly in its time of writing, namely the late 60s.

Subject: Lyr Add: TOGETHER FOREVER (Rab Noakes)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 06:33 PM

Together Forever by Rab Noakes

You and me, sitting on a bus
In the front seat at the top,
Watching the people who don't look like us,
Going way past our stop

Travelling everywhere,
We got no money but what do we care
You and me, sitting on a bus,
In the front seat at the top

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 06:00 PM

Who wrote that?

Have they got an update to fit in the tram fiasco?

Subject: Lyr Add: EDINBURGH BUS STRIKE BLUES
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 05:40 PM

"A Transport of Delight"! I remember it when it was general.

Here's "Edinburgh Bus Strike Blues"

They got a bus strike down in Edinburgh, you know the buses they ain't runnin' no more,
Yeah, they got a bus strike down in Edinburgh, the buses they ain't runnin' no more,
So many people had to walk, never walked in their lives before.

I wanted to get a taxi, This is what the man say –
You know you can't get a taxi, boy, 'Cos they all hired out today
'Cos they got a bus strike down in Edinburgh, an' the buses they ain't runnin' no more,
So many people got to walk, never walked in their lives before.

I wanted to get an SMT, I had to walk to the outskirts of town
'Cos if you try an' get one in the middle of town They just turn you down
'Cos they got a bus strike down in Edinburgh, an' buses they ain't runnin' no more,
So many people got to walk, never walked in their lives before.

Edinburgh Corporation done closed down all the trams An' the suburban trains been closed down too
So if the buses ain't runnin' What am I gonna do
When they got another bus strike down in Edinburgh, an' the buses they ain't runnin' no more,
So many people gonna have to walk, never walked in their lives before.

You know you can't go by bus An' you can't go by train;
You just got to walk out throughout the drivin' snow An' out through the pourin' rain;
You know that was an awful strike When the buses ain't runnin' no more
When they used to run about through all the streets An' take you anywhere you wanna go
But they got a bus strike down in Edinburgh, you know the buses they ain't runnin' no more,
So many people gotta walk, never walked in their lives before.

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 05:32 PM

Flanders and Swann's 'A Transport of Delight.'

Subject: Lyr Add: THE KELTIE CLIPPIE (John Watt)
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 05:21 PM

The Keltie Clippie by John Watt (a clippie is a bus conductress)

I have travelled roon' this countrie, from shore tae shining shore,
Frae the swamps o' Auchterderran tae the jungles o' Lochore,
But in all these far flung places there's none that can compare
Wi' the Lily o' Lumphinnans, she's ma bonnie Maggie Blair.

Oh, she's just a Kelty Clippie, she'll no tak' no advice;
It's "Ach drap deid, awa' bile yer heid, Ah'll punch yer ticket twice".
Her faither's jist a waister, her mither's on the game,
She's jist a Kelty Clippie but I love her just the same.

Frae the pyramids up in Kelty tae the mansions in Glencraig,
We've trod the bings together in mony's the blythe stravaig,
Watche the moonlight over Crosshill, trod Buckhaven's golden sand,
And mony's the happy oor we've spent in Lochgelly's Happy Land.

Well I met her on the "eight fifteen" that nicht o' romantic bliss,
I says "Hey Mag pit doon yer bag and gie's a wee bit kiss".
Well she didnae tak' that kindly, no she didnae like ma chaff,
And bein' a contrary kind o' lass she says "Come oan - get aff".

Noo she hasnae got nae culture, ach she drives me roon' the bend,
She sits every nicht in the old arm chair readin' the "People's Friend".
Her lapels is fu' o' badges frae Butlins doon at Ayr,
And she gangs tae the Bingo every nicht wi' the curlers in her hair.

But things is a wee bit better noo, ah've gone and bocht the ring;
I won it frae Jim at the Pitch and Toss last nicht at the Lindsay Bing.
Wi' her wee black hat and her ticket machine she did ma heart ensnare,
She's the Lily o' Lumphinnans, she's ma bonnie Maggie Blair.


By John Watt. As printed in "The Scottish Folksinger", collected and edited by Norman Buchan and Peter Hall, Collins, 1973, pp76-77.

Subject: Lyr Add: THURNSCOE RAIN (Ray Hearne)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 05:20 PM

Thurnscoe Rain by Ray Hearne

She is standing at the bus stop down the High Street
A broken shopping trolley at her feet
She is calling to her kids but they're not listening
They are dancing round and round in the Thurnscoe rain

She is wondering where the 226 has got to
An empty Coal Board wagon soaks her through
As if all the years of giving without taking
Were culminating in the Thurnscoe rain

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 05:04 PM

Some children's songs

From Scotland

Ye Cannae Shove Yer Grannie Aff the Bus

Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus,
Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus,
Ye cannae shove yer grannie
For she's yer mammie's mammie,
Ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus.

There's also a cumulative poem by Wilma Horsburgh

The Bold Bad Bus

Pimpernel Petroleum is a bold, bad bus
Who doesn't care for travelling from Glasgow to Luss.
"Pop!" goes her engine, "Crunch!" go her gears.
Her passengers are sitting with their fingers in their ears.
Pimpernel Petroleum loves to make a fuss
For Pimpernel Petroleum is a bold, bad bus.

It's similar to The Train to Glasgow, another poem by Wilma Horsburgh, set to music by The Singing Kettle - Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise. They also sing Ye Cannae Shove Your Grannie Aff the Bus.

From Wikipedia;

Singing To the Bus Driver or Hail To the Bus Driver, an anonymous United States folk song dating to the mid-20th century.

It is sung to the tune of the traditional English children's song The More We Get Together, which itself derives from a 1679 Viennese tune by Marx Augustin, Oh du lieber Augustin.

Singing to the bus driver, bus driver, bus driver,
Singing to the bus driver, bus driver-man.
He drinks and he smokes and he tells dirty jokes,
Singing to the bus driver, bus driver-man.

Subject: ADD: The Wheels on the Bus
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 05:02 PM

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS

Oh, the wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round, round and round;
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All over town

2. The driver on the bus says, "Move on back."
3. The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish.
4. The lights on the bus go blink, blink, blink.
5. The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep


We learned the last line as: "All through the town."

Other verses I've heard:
The people on the bus go up and down.
The babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah! / Mommies on the bus go shh! shh! shh!

I don't know what you'd call the name of this very familiar tune. It's almost the tune of "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush,' but that's not it.

See Back of the Bus Songs for another version, and other bus songs.

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 04:33 PM

You Cannae Shove Your Grannie Aff A Bus

The Wheels On the Bus Go Around And Around

Glasgow bus driver song (from a singer who knows what he's singing about)

The 37 Bus

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 04:03 PM

Continental Trailways Bus written by Paul Brady
Recorded by The Johnstons on their album Give A Damn

Rosa Parks written by Polly Bolton
Oh Rosa Parks - She would not stand for the white folks
I said Oh Rosa Parks - She would not stand on the bus

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 02:42 PM

And I almost forgot "THANK GOD AND GREYHOUND (You're Gone)".
Roy Clark sings it on Youtube.

Subject: Lyr Add: BACK OF THE BUS (2 songs)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 02:36 PM

THere seems to be few titled "Back of the Bus"
Here's two:

Old ladies just wanna get around town,
they don't want to sit next to something brown,
You're vile, disgusting, revolting and black
so keep walking nigger and get in the back

Back of the bus, back of the bus, we don't want you to sit near us (x2)

That stupid fucking chimp Rosa Parks was a cunt,
that brain-damaged monkey tried to sit in the front,
she forgot that she was from an inferior class,
If she was here now i'd kick her primate ass

Back of the bus, back of the bus, we don't want you to sit near us (x2)

You stupid fucking ugly nigger piece of shit,
You'd better find yourself another place to sit,
When you get on the bus you'd better walk by,
'Cause if you sit in the front you're gonna die.

Back of the bus, back of the bus, we don't want you to sit near us


If you miss me from the back of the bus
and you can't find me nowhere
come on up to the front of the bus
I'll be riding up there.
I'll be riding right there,
I'll be riding right there.
if you miss me from the back of the bus
I'll be riding right there.

If you miss me from Jackson State
and you can't find me nowhere
come on over to "ole Miss"
I'll be studying right there.
I'll be studying right there,
I'll be studying right there.
if you miss me from the Jackson State
I'll be studying right there.

If you miss me from the cotton fields
and you can't find me nowhere
come on down to the court house
I'll be voting right there.
I'll be voting right there
I'll be voting right there.
if you miss me from the cotton fields
I'll be voting right there.

If you miss me from the picket line
and you can't find me nowhere
come on down to the jailhouse
I'll be rooming down there.
I'll be rooming right there
I'll be rooming right there.
if you miss me from the picket line
I'll be rooming right there.

If you miss me from the Mississippi River
and you can't find me nowhere
come on down the the city pool
I'll be swimming in there.
I'll be swimming right there
I'll be swimming right there.
if you miss me from the Mississippi
illllll beeeeee rigggghht thereeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr.

source: Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/9E33

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Acorn4
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 02:24 PM

Jake Thackray:- "North Country Bus"

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 02:15 PM

Adam McNaughtan's "Erchie Cathcairt".

There is another Scottish one (McGinn? McNaughtan?) about a brawl on a bus - number 37? Does somebody remember?

Subject: RE: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,sturgeon
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 02:06 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHbF0jAzMw

Subject: Req. Songs about Buses
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 01:57 PM

Other then the well known song," M.T.A." made famous by the Kingston Trio and "America" by Simon & Garfunkel, I am looking for songs that the main subject is related to or about buses (NOT SCHOOL BUSES).

Any information about folk songs related to public transportation (Buses), would be appreciated.