Name: You Can Ride A Greyhound Bus
Duration: P00H03M25S
Description: Hitchhiking is a vanishing mode of transportation. The days of travelling on your thumb are just about over.

You Can Ride A Greyhound Bus

from Native Son by T. R. Munday

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Buy the Full Digital Album

about

Hitchhiking is a vanishing mode of transportation. The days of travelling on your thumb are just about over.

lyrics

You Can Ride a Greyhound Bus
copyright 2018 T R Munday

You can ride a Greyhound bus or get a ticket for a train
Get yourself a rental car or hop aboard a plane
(Transportation!)
Me I'm standing on the side of the road with my thumb sticking out
Guitar case and a duffel bag that's what it's all about
(Hitchhiking!)

Headed out of Janesville on good old Thirty-Nine
Got a ride from a preacher man down to the Illinois line
(Interstate highways!)
He asked me if my soul was saved I told him not quite yet
But I'm working on it father I'm as saved as I can get
(Hallelujah!)

Got a ride through Rockford in a big old semi-truck
Said if you don't mind me saying you look like you're down on your luck
(Eighteen wheeler!)
I'll tell you mister and I won't lie
I'd have to get better before I could die
(Exaggeration!)

(spoken: I stole that line from Hank Williams. He's dead he won't mind.)

Come on board the driver said I'll get you down the road
I'm going to Peoria where I'll pick up a load
(Yeah baby! Long ride!)
I climbed up in that tractor cab and then I flashed a smile
I appreciate your stopping I've been waiting there a while
(Goodbye entrance ramp!)

Got a gig down in St. Louis starting Friday night
Got four days to get there and I'm used to travelling light
(Cash money!)
Now I didn't tell that driver that he'd be in a song
But I started working on just that thing as we rolled right along
(spoken: Much appreciated. I'll just get out here)

credits

from Native Son, released December 8, 2021
drums: James Dooley
Photo by Wendy Wei from Pexels

license

about

T. R. Munday Chicago, Illinois

If you enjoy the Blues, check out Anni Piper's vocals and her great bass guitar: annipiper.bandcamp.com

T. R. Munday resides in Northern Illinois, by way of Texas and California.
Musically, he has been most influenced by Mississippi John Hurt, Johnny Cash, and a whole host of Mississippi Delta and Chicago Bluesmen. ... more

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact T. R. Munday

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

T. R. Munday recommends:

Blow up Doll
by Anni Piper

Annie Piper is one of the best bass players going and her distinctive vocal style is a sheer pleasure to listen to. T. R. Munday
go to album

If you like T. R. Munday, you may also like:

Buffalo Nichols
by Buffalo Nichols

With virtuosic guitar-playing and evocative singing, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols returns Black stories to folk and blues. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 9, 2021
go to album
Jessie Mae Hemphill
by Jessie Mae Hemphill

featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 6, 2016
go to album
The King's Blues Box
by B.B. King

Cleopatra Blues recently unleashed a barrage of reissued essentials from Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, etc. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2016
go to album
Sky Blue
by Townes Van Zandt

An intimate collection of previously-unreleased recordings from the Texan singer-songwriter: first drafts, alternate takes, covers and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2019
go to album
Parliament
by Mike Nagoda

Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP. Bandcamp New & Notable May 8, 2014
go to album