You're Crazy For Taking The Bus - Jonathan Richman

Well, a welfare gal and her drunk galoot

And nobody wearing a three piece suit

You meet folks this way you just don’t see while flying

So, you take the plane but I’ll take the bus this time

Well, a welfare gal and her drunken cuss

And Pepsi cans rolling round the bus

Add newspapers and grit and you’ve got slime

So you take the plane but I’ll take the bus this time

Where it’s Salt Lake City, everybody off

Salt Lake City, everybody off

With Elko, Welles and Reno down the line

So you take the plane but I’ll take the bus this time

«But Jonathan

You’re crazy for taking the bus»

«Well, I’m crazy, so what’s the fuss?»

«Two whole days on that stinking bus?»

«Yes, and I sleep fine

So you take the plane, I’ll take the bus this time»

Go Donnie, tell 'em

Look at it this way

They don’t want my name

And I don’t want their baggage claim

My guitar is seated right where I am

So you take the plane but I’ll take the bus this time

Well, you got the old fat guy in his old tank top

The Wendover casino stop

And then of course Winnemucca and Welles and Anaheim

So you take the plane but I’ll take the bus this time

And it’s Salt Lake City, everybody off

Salt Lake City, everybody off

With Elko, Welles and Reno down the line

So you take the plane, I’ll take the bus this time

«But Jonathan

You’re crazy for taking the bus»

«Well, I’m crazy, so what’s the fuss?»

«Two whole days on that stinking bus?»

«Yes, and I sleep fine

So you take the plane, I’ll take the bus this time»