Waiting for the Bus

[00:00.88] My name is Gary Tyler, Louisiana-born
[00:05.35] Shadow of the poplar tree on fields all ripe with corn
[00:09.89] Sixteen years I counted on the rising of the sun
[00:16.22] I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[00:23.58] Of all the Disunited States divided black and white
[00:28.03] Louisiana taught me how to think and how to fight
[00:33.48] Sixty of us kids aboard the number 91
[00:38.85] I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[00:45.13] Bus was barely moving we were set upon and stopped
[00:49.67] Watched 200 white boys throwing bottles, cans and rocks
[00:55.07] Trapped and scared together there was nowhere we could run
[01:05.05] I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[01:07.76] Boy outside the bus, an automatic in his hand
[01:12.27] We heard a single shot and then we all just hit the ground
[01:16.75] I never pulled a trigger and I never held a gun
[01:22.26] I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[01:29.42] White boy lay there bleeding cops they searched the bus
[01:33.99] Never found a thing to say that it was one of us
[01:39.33] Took us down the station they were beating us for fun
[01:42.95] I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[01:52.04] Gun produced from nowhere pinned the crime on me
[01:56.58] A lynchmob for a jury meant they'd never set me free
[02:01.03] Thirty years in prison for a crime I haven't done
[02:07.32] I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home
[02:14.54] Waiting here the world has turned a thousand times or more
[02:21.80] Stranded like the man who never knew they'd stopped the war
[02:23.68] Waiting for the pardon but the pardon never comes
[02:29.97] I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home.
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