Cultural References
- The Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil song "On Broadway" (remade most famously by The Drifters and later George Benson) mentions "I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home".
- Chuck Berry rides a Greyhound bus from Norfolk, Virginia, to Birmingham, Alabama, in his 1965 song "Promised Land".
- The Allman Brothers Band referenced Greyhound Lines in their 1973 hit song "Ramblin' Man."
- Simon and Garfunkel referred to Greyhound Lines in their song "America".
- In his song Me And The Devil, blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson expresses a wish that his body be buried beside a road so that his "old evil spirit" can "catch a Greyhound bus and ride".
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