I Need Help With Songs That Mention Greyhound Buses

Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque - The Partridge Family

I don't think anyone's mentioned The Promised Land by Chuck Berry yet? (oops apart from the last post)

 

Were you thinking of "On Broadway"? The only form of transportation in "On the Boardwalk" that I can recall is the carousel.

 

"Abilene" from Dave Alvin.

 

I haven't had time to check out all the unfamiliar songs mentioned in this thread, but there's this snippet of a song I've had stuck in my head for about 10 years at least, and the only line/melody/etc I can remember is "...ing on the backseat of a greyhound bus" and "greyhound bus" has a walkdown bass this going on, like
grey-hound-bus
-C---CM9/B--Am

and that's all I know of it but I swear it's a song, it's a great song.

 

The Louvin Brothers - "Cash on the Barrelhead"

 

Plush - "Greyhound Bus Station", one of the best songs ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YkXy53bHc

 

Sara Evans - Backseat Of a Greyhound Bus

 

King Crimson - 'One More Red Nightmare'

Rod Stewart - 'The Killing of Georgie'

 

Home In My Hand, written by Ronnie Self, performed by Commander Cody.

"I went down to the Greyhound station/ To catch an outbound dog"

 

Chuck Berry - Bye Bye Johnny

 

Jesus On A Greyhound ~ Shelby Lynne

 

Harry Chapin - "30,000 Pounds Of Bananas" (live version)

"...I decided finally that honesty was the best policy....and I would end the song the way I found out about it in the first place: and that was, coming on a Greyhound bus....through Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1965..."

 

Backseat of a Greyhound Bus - Sara Evans

 

Point Me In The Direction of Albuquerque - The Partridge Family

("showed me a ticket for a greyhound bus..")

 

"Greyhound Girl" - Pete Townshend (can be found on his Lifehouse Chronicles set)...although not sure if he is talking about the dog or the bus though....

 

Queen: See What A Fool I've Been (found on the new Queen II Remaster)

 

Oops...Already mentioned. I didn't read this whole thread.

 

Wow! Thanks, everyone! And yes, Greyhound stations are ok too!

There are several songs here that I'm not familiar with, and am going to have to search them out!

Would love to know what song Aegir was talking about in Post 29.

This is going to be a nice comp! Thanks again.

 

Here is the list so far, in alphabetical order:

30,000 Pounds Of Bananas (live version) - Harry Chapin
Abilene - Dave Alvin
America - Simon & Garfunkel
Backseat Of A Greyhound Bus - Sara Evans
Blues For Baby And Me - Elton John
Bye Bye Johnny - Chuck Berry
Cash On The Barrelhead - Louvin Brothers
Chocolate Town - Ween
Dance - Ratt
Don't It Make You Want To Go Home - Joe South
Greyhound - Amos Milburn
Greyhound - Buddy Morrow & His Orchestra
Greyhound - Harry Chapin
Greyhound Bus Depot - Lee Hazlewood and Ann-Margret
Greyhound Bus Station - Plush
Greyhound Girl - Pete Townshend
Greyhound Rising - Trey Anastasio
Hell Greyhound Bus Ride - Wesley Willis
Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham - Blue Cheer
Home In My Hand - Commander Cody
Jesus On A Greyhound - Shelby Lynne
Johnny Bye-Bye - Bruce Springsteen
Killing Of George, The - Rod Stewart
Last Time I Saw Him - Diana Ross
Lodi - CCR
Lonesome, On'ry & Mean - Waylon Jennings
Me And The Devil Blues - Robert Johnson
Minutes to Memories - John Mellencamp
Never Going Back - Lovin' Spoonful
New York State Of Mind - Billy Joel
On Broadway - Drifters
One More Red Nightmare - King Crimson
Point Me In The Direction of Albuquerque - The Partridge Family
Promised Land - Chuck Berry/Grateful Dead
Ramblin MAn - Allman Brothers
See What A Fool I've Been - Queen
Somebody Have Mercy - Sam Cooke
Thank God and Greyhound - Roy Clark

 

In case ya needed another one:

Steve Earle - "Continental Trailways Blues"

 

The Warren Brothers - Gonna Catch A Greyhound

 

"One in a Million" - Guns 'n' Roses ("So I thumbed it, 9-0-6-10, LA/Maybe a Greyhound could be my way..."). You might not be keen to use it though, given the later verses and their impolitic references to blacks and gays.

 

On A Bus To St.Cloud ~ Trisha Yearwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prJyb7W605c

 

Greyhound Bus - The Moldy Peaches

 

Does it have to be Greyhound??

There's "Trailways Bus" from Paul Simon's Songs From The Capeman.