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 <- This is just a but play the D string open. For the sake of

simplicity I will just put "C".

Intro

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Verse

Second Street and Broadway, there's a little bus stop

Just an ordinary downtown of a city just around the block

Jay picks up a six-string, he starts to sing the blues

 Plays the King, a little bit of old school, and a couple of new ones too

See, back where he's from there's this girl that broke his heart

That blonde hair and giggle just tore that boy apart

So he drive into the city where he flat out disappeared

Second Street and Broadway in a town not far from here

Chorus

 He sings a song that he wrote for her even though she's miles and miles away

 And he dreams of when he held her close, oh how time has changed

Then he switches to a minor key, but the memory won't fade away

 Now he's twelve cents short of a bus ride home, playing for your pocket

change

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Verse

You can toss him a nickel, a dime, or even drop a five

He don't care, he's nowhere near there, his mind's in auto drive

And he's thinking of that time when she held that baby cat

And the poor boy sneezed the whole way home but he didn't seem to mind that

And he's praying one day maybe she'd love him again

But he noticed the bucket, nods, and flashes you a small grin

The bus pulls up but no one moves cause no one wants to leave

The night's young and he's doing pretty good, pretty much everyone agrees

Chorus

He sings a song that he wrote for her even though she's miles and miles away

And he dreams of when he held her close, yeah, cause oh how time has changed

Then he switches to a minor key, but the memory won't fade away

Now he's twelve cents short of a bus ride home, playing for your pocket

change

Verse

*this verse is the same as the

others except you add in the

G/B like in the first half of

the intro*

Couple of hours later and Jay just shakes his head

All he needed was twelve cents but he's holding eighteen dollars instead

Ya know everyone likes it when they start to snap along

All because the love he had ended so wrong

Chorus

He sings a song that he wrote for her even though she's a million miles away

And he dreams of when he held her close, yeah, cause oh how time has changed

Then he switches to a minor key, but the memory won't fade away

Now he's twelve cents short of a bus ride home, playing for your pocket

change