Bruce Springsteen


    1. Atlantic City
    2. Because The Night
    3. Better Days
    4. Bobby Jean
    5. Born To Run
    6. Brilliant Disguise
    7. Chicken Lips And Lizard Hips
    8. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
    9. Fire
   10. Glory Days
   11. Human Touch
   12. Hungry Heart
   13. Hungry Heart.2
   14. If I Was The Priest
   15. Im On Fire
   16. Man At The Top
   17. Mansion On The Hill
   18. Murder Incorporated
   19. My Hometown
   20. No Surrender
   21. One Step Up
   22. Point Blank
   23. Pony Boy
   24. Red Headed Woman
   25. Sandy
   26. Seeds
   27. Spirit In The Night
   28. Streets Of Philadelphia
   29. The Promised Land
   30. The River
   31. This Hard Land
   32. Thunder Road
   33. Tougher Than The Rest


Atlantic City

Bruce Springsteen

CAPO ON 3rd FRET!

 Em 
Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night
 Em 
Now, they blew up his house, too
 Em 
Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight
 Em 
Gonna see what them racket boys can do
 Em 
Now, there's trouble bustin' in from outta state
 Em 
And the D.A. can't get no relief
 Em 
Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade
 Em 
And the gamblin' commission's hangin' on by the skin of his teeth

Chorus
 Em 
Well now, ev'rything dies, baby, that's a fact
 Em Em 
But maybe ev'rything that dies someday comes back
 
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
 Em 
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City


Em G C G

Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus
Now, baby, ev'rything dies, honey, that's a fact...

Em 
Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold
 Em 
But with you forever I'll stay
 Em 
We're goin' out where the sand's turnin' to gold
Put on your stockin's baby, `cause the night's gettin' cold
 
And maybe ev'rything dies, baby, that's a fact
 
But maybe ev'rything that dies someday comes back

Em G C G

Now, I been lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find
Down here it's just winners and losers and don't
get caught on the wrong side of that line
Well, I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end
So, honey, last night I met this guy and I'm gonna
do a little favor for him

Well, I guess everything dies, baby, that's a fact...


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Because the Night

Words and Music by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith


intro
Bm Bm Bm 
Bm Bm 
Take me now, baby, here as I am.
Bm Bm 
Pull me close try and understand.
 Bm Bm 
Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe.
Bm Bm 
Love is a banquet on which we feed.
Come on now, try and understand
 Bm 
the way I feel when I'm in your hand.
Take my hand; come under cover.
 Bm F# 
They can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now.

chorus:
Chorus
Bm Bm 
Because the night belongs to lovers.
Bm Bm 
Because the night belongs to lust.
Bm Bm 
Because the night belongs to lovers.
Bm Bm 
Because the night belongs to us.


Have I doubt when I'm alone?
Love is a ring on the telephone.
Love is an angel disguised as lust,
here in our bed until the morning comes.
Come on now, try and understand
the way I feel under your command.
Take my hand as the sun descends.
They can't touch you now, can't touch you now, can't touch you now.

Repeat chorus

 Bm 
With love we sleep; with doubt the viscious circle turn and turns.
Bm 
Without you I cannot live, forgive the yearning, burning
 
I believe in time, too real to feel,
 Bm F# 
so touch me now, touch me now, touch me now.

Repeat chorus and fade

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Better Days

Bruce Springsteen


Well my soul checked out missin' as I sat listenin'
C#m 
To the hours and minutes tickin' away.
 F#m 
Yeah, just sittin around waitin' for my life to begin
F#m 
While it was all just slippin' away
 
Well I'm tired of waitin' for tomorrow to come
C#m 
For the train to come rollin' 'round the bend
 F#m 
I got a new suit of clothes and a pretty red rose
F#m 
A women I can call my friend

CHORUS 1:
These are Better Days, baby
Yeah, there's Better Days shinin' through
These are Better Days, baby
 F#m 
Better Days with a girl like you

Well I took a piss at fortune's sweet kiss
C#m 
It's like eatin' cavier in the dirt
 F#m 
It's a sad funny ending when you find yourself pretending
F#m 
To be a rich man in a poor man's shirt
 
Now my ass was draggin from a passin' gypsy wagon
C#m 
Your heart like a diamond shown
 F#m 
Tryin' to lay it in your arms, count the lucky charms
Get out of these hard luck bones

CHORUS 2:
These are Better Days, baby
Yeah, there's Better Days shinin' through
These are Better Days, baby
 
Better Days are shining through

: A C#m F#m A E


Now a life of leisure, and a pirate's treasure
C#m 
Don't make much for tragedy.
 F#m 
It's a sad man, my friend, whose livin' in his own skin,
F#m 
And can't stand the company.
 
Every fools got a reason to feel sorry for himself
C#m 
And turning his heart to stone
 F#m 
Drag this fool half way to heaven, just a mile on to hell
F#m 
And I feel like I'm comin' home!

CHORUS 1
CHORUS 2

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Bobby Jean

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: A E B7
 
Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away
 
She said there was nothing that I could have done
 B7 
There was nothing nobody could say
 
Now me and you we've known each other ever since we were sixteen
 
I wish I would've known I wished I could have called you
 B7 B7 
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their noise
We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen
Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

 F#m 
Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid
 
Now there ain't nobody no where no how gonna ever understand me the way you did

Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room there'll be a radio playing
And you'll hear me sing this song
Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between
And I'm just calling one last time not to change your mind
B7 
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck, goodbye, Bobby Jean

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Born to run

Bruce Springsteen


 
In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway
 
American dream
 D7 
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
 
Sprung from cages on highway 9
 Am 
Chrome wheels, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line
 
Baby, this town rips the bones from your back
 Am 
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
 Am 
I wanna get out while I'm still young
 
'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

 
Well, Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend, I wanna
 
guard your dreams and visions
 
Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims, strap your
 
hands across my engines
 
And together we could break this trap
 Am 
We'll run til we drop, and baby we'll never go back
 
Walk with me out on the wire
 Am 
Girl, I'm just a scared and lonely rider
 Am 
And I gotta know how it feels
 
I wanna know if love is wild, I wanna know if love is real

 
Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the
boulevard
 
The girls comb their hair in the rear view mirrors and the
 Am 
boys try to look so hard
 
The amusement park rises bold and stark, kids are huddled on
the beach in the mist
 
Well, I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight in
 Am 
an everlasting kiss

 
Well, the highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last
 
chance power drive
 
Everybody's out on the run tonight, but there ain't no place
 
left to hide
 
Together we could live with the sadness
 Am 
I'll love you with all the maddness in my soul
 
Someday, baby, I don't know when
 Am 
We're gonna get to that place that we really wanna go
 Am 
And we'll walk in the sun
 
Til then, tramps like us, baby we were born to run

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Brilliant Disguise

Bruce Springsteen

capo on 2nd fret
 Asus2 Asus4 
|:________________________:|

 Asus2 Asus4 
I hold you in my arms ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
As the band plays ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
What are those words whispered baby ______
 Esus2 
Just as you turn away _____
 Asus2 Asus4 
I saw you last night ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
Out on the edge of town ______
 Asus2 
I wanna read your mind
 Asus4 
To know just what I've got in
 Esus2 
This new thing I've found _____
 
So tell me [f#m]what I see _____
 
When I [f#m]look in your eyes _____
 
Is that [f#m]you___ baby
 
Or [f#m]just a [bm]brilliant disgui____se

 Asus2 Asus4 
I heard somebody call your name ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
From underneath our willow _________
 Asus2 Asus4 
I saw something tucked in shame ______
 Esus2 
Underneath your pillow _____
 Asus2 Asus4 
Well I've tried so hard baby ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
But I just can't see _________
 Asus2 Asus4 
What a woman like you _________
 Esus2 
Is doing with me _____
 
So tell me [f#m]who I see _____
 
When I [f#m]look in your eyes _____
 
Is that [f#m]you___ baby
 
Or [f#m]just a [bm]brilliant disgui____se

 Esus4 
Now look at me baby
Asus2 
Struggling to do everything right _____
 Dsus2 
And then it all falls apart _____
 Asus2 
When out go the lights _____
 Esus4 
I'm just a lonely pilgrim _____
 
I walk this world in wealth
 Asus2 
I wanna know if it's you I don't trust
Esus2 
'Cause I damn sure don't trust myself

Asus2 Asus4 
Now you play the loving woman ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
I'll play the faithful man ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
But just don't look too close ______
 Esus2 
Into the palm of my hand _____
 Asus2 Asus4 
We stood at the altar
 Asus2 Asus4 
The gypsy swore our future was right ______
 Asus2 
But come the wee wee hours
 Asus4 Esus2 
Well maybe baby the gypsy lied _____
 
So when you [f#m]look at me
 
You better look [f#m]hard and look twice _____
 
Is that [f#m]me____ baby
 
Or [f#m]just a [bm]brilliant disgui____se

 Asus2 Asus4 
Tonight our bed is cold
 Asus2 Asus4 
I'm lost in the darkness of our love ______
 Asus2 Asus4 
God have mercy on the man ______
 
Who doubts what he's sure of__

{d:A 3 3 0 0 0 -1 3}
{d:Asus2 3 3 0 2 0 -1 3}
{d:Asus4 3 3 1 0 0 -1 3}
{d:D 3 0 1 0 2 3 3}
{d:Dsus2 3 0 1 0 0 3 3}
{d:E 3 2 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:Esus2 3 0 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:Esus4 3 3 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:bm 3 0 1 2 2 0 0}
{d:f#m 3 0 0 0 2 2 0}

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Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips

Bruce Springsteen


Play G during spoken part
Spoken: "This is for all you kids out there that hate your mom and pop
for forcin' you to eat everything that's on you dinner plate every night."

 
Yea, when I was a little kid see I never liked to eat
 
And Mama put things on my plate and I'd dump `em on her feet
 
But then one day she made this soup I ate it all in bed
 
I asked her what she put in it, well this is what she said

 
Oh chicken lips and lizard hips and alligator eyes
 
Yea monkey legs and buzzard eggs and salimander thighs
 
Well, rabbit ears and camel rears and tasty toenail pies
Stir `em all together and it's Mama's Soup Surprise.

 
Well now I went in the bathroom and I stood beside the sink
 
I said I'm feeling slightly ill and I'd think I'd like a drink
Mama said I have just the thing, I'll get it in a wink
 
It's full of lots of protein and vitamins, I think

 
It was chicken lips and lizard hips and alligator eyes
 
Yea monkey legs and buzzard eggs and salimander thighs
Rabbit ears and camel rears and tasty toenail pies
Stir `em all together and it's Mama's Soup Surprise.


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Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: G C G C G

 
Well they're still racing out at the Trestles
 
But that blood it never burned in her veins
 
Now I hear she's got a house up in Fairview
 
And a style she's trying to maintain

 Em 
Well if she wants to see me
 
You can tell her that I'm easily found
 Em 
Tell her there's a spot out `neath Abram's Bridge
 Dm7 
Tell her there's a darkness on the edge of town
 
There's a darkness on the edge of town
 
Everybody's got a secret Sonny
 
Something that they just can't face
 
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it
 
They carry it with them every step that they take

 Em 
Till some day they just cut it loose
 Em 
Cut it loose or let it drag `em down
 
Where no one asks any questions
 Em 
Or looks too long in your face
 Dm7 
In the darkness on the edge of town
 
There's a darkness on the edge of town
Some folks are born into a good life
Other folks get it anyway anyhow
I lost my money and I lost my wife
Them things don't seem to matter much to me now
Tonight I'll be on that hill `cause I can't stop
I'll be on that hill with everything I got
Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost
I'll be there on time and I'll pay the cost
For wanting things that can only be found
In the darkness on the edge of town


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Fire

Bruce Springsteen

 
We're driving in my car, I turn on the radio.
 Am 
I'm pulling you close, you just say no.
 Am Em 
You say you don't like it, but you know you're a liar.
 
'Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire.

 
Late at night, I'm taking you home.
 Am 
I say I want to stay, you say you want to be alone.
 Am Em 
You say you don't love me, but you can't hide your desire.
 
'Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire.

 
You've had a hold on me right from the start,
 
A grip so tight I couldn't tear it apart.
 
My nerves' all jumping, acting like a fool,
 A7 
Well your kisses they burn, but your heart stays cool.

 
Oh Romeo and Juli- et, Sampson and Delilah,
 Am 
Baby you can bet, their love they didn't deny.
 Am Em 
Your words say split, but your words they lie.
 
'Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire.




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Glory Days

Bruce Springsteen



INTRO: A / D A D / G D A / D A D / G A...

I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school
He could throw that speed ball by you, make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar, I was walkin' in he was
 
walkin' out. We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all he
 
kept talkin' about
 
Glory Days, well they'll pass you by, Glory Days, in
 
the wink of a young girls eye Glory Days, Glory Days.


BRIDGE: E / A E E / A E D / G D E

Additional lyrics

There's a girl that lives block back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks after she put' her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby well they split up I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times she says when she feels like crying
she stars laughing thinking about
Glory days ...

Think I'm going down to the well tonight and I'm going to drink til I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it, but I probably will
Yeah just sitting back trying to racapture a little of the glory of
But time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister
but boring stories of
Glory days ...

All right boys keep it rocking now
We gonna go home now
Let's go

Glory days ...

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Human Touch

Bruce Springsteen


G* = G w/suspended A

G* 
You and me we were the pretenders
G* 
We let it all slip away
G* 
In the end what you don't surrender
Well the world just strips away
G* 
Girl, ain't no kindness in the face of strangers
G* 
Ain't gonna find no miracles here
G* 
Well you can wait on your blesses my darling
I got a deal for you right here
I ain't looking for praise or pity
I ain't coming 'round searching for a crutch
I just want someone to talk to
And a little of that Human Touch
Just a little of that Human Touch


G* 
Ain't no mercy on the streets of this town
G* 
Ain't no bread from Heavenly skies
G* 
Ain't nobody drawing wine from this blood
It's just you and me tonight
Tell me, in a world without pity
Do you think what I'm askin's too much
I just want something to hold on to
And a little of that Human Touch
Just a little of that Human Touch


 
Oh girl that feeling of safety that you prize
 Em 
Well it comes at a hard hard price
 
You can't shut off the risk and the pain
 Em 
Without losing the love that remains
 
We're all riders on this train

G* 
So you've been broken and you've been hurt
G* 
Show me somebody who ain't
G* 
Yeah, I know I ain't nobody's bargain
But, hell, a little touch up and a little paint...
You might need something to hold on to
When all the answers, they don't amount to much
Somebody that you could just to talk to
And a little of that Human Touch
Baby, in a world without pity
Do you think what I'm askin's too much
I just want to feel you in my arms
Share a little of that Human Touch
Feel a little of that Human Touch
Give me a little of that Human Touch


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Hungry Heart

Bruce Springsteen

Intro
Am7 Dm7 
[G7sus]

Am7 
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack
Dm7 
I went out for a ride and [G7sus]I never went back
Am7 
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
Dm7 
I took a wrong turn and I [G7sus]just kept going

Chorus
Am7 
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Dm7 
Everybody's got a [G7sus]hungry heart
Am7 
Lay down your money and you play your part
Dm7 
Everybody's got a [G7sus]huh-uh-un-gry heart


Am7 
I met her in a Kingstown bar
Dm7 
We fell in love I knew [G7sus]it had to end
Am7 
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Dm7 
Now here I am down [G7sus]in Kingstown again

Chorus

Solo
Eb Cm7 Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb Cm7 Fm7 
[G7sus]

Am7 
Everybody needs a place to rest
Dm7 
Everybody wants to [G7sus]have a home
Am7 
Don't make no difference what nobody says
Dm7 
Ain't nobody like to [G7sus]be alone

chorus

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Bruce Springsteen

Hungry Heart (from the album "The River")
Intro
Am7 Dm7 
-------------[G7sus]------

Am7 
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack
Dm7 
I went out for a ride and [G7sus]I never went back
Am7 
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
Dm7 
I took a wrong turn and I [G7sus]just kept going

Chorus
Am7 
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Dm7 
Everybody's got a [G7sus]hungry heart
Am7 
Lay down your money and you play your part
Dm7 
Everybody's got a [G7sus]huh-uh-un-gry heart


Am7 
I met her in a Kingstown bar
Dm7 
We fell in love I knew [G7sus]it had to end
Am7 
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Dm7 
Now here I am down [G7sus]in Kingstown again

Chorus

Solo
Eb Cm7 Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb Cm7 Fm7 
-------------------------------------------[G7sus]----
---

Am7 
Everybody needs a place to rest
Dm7 
Everybody wants to [G7sus]have a home
Am7 
Don't make no difference what nobody says
Dm7 
Ain't nobody like to [G7sus]be alone

chorus

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If I Was The Priest

Bruce Springsteen


INTRO (don't play the bottom E string on Intro)
G/B C/G C/G 
G/B C/G C/G 
VERSE
 Em C/G 
Well there's a light ?on yonder ?mountain and it's callin' me to shine
 Em C/G 
There's a girl over by the water fountain and she's asking to be mine
 
And ain't that Jesus's he's standing in the doorway
 Em C/G 
with a buckskin jacket, boots and spurs so really fine
 
He says we need you up in Dodge City son because there's
 Em 
oh so many bad boys tryin' to work the same line

G/B C/G C/G 
G/B C/G C/G 

CHORUS
 Em 
Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my
Em C/G 
lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief oh and
Am 
papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line
Em 
still too many bad boys tryin' to work the same line

G/B C/G C/G 
G/B C/G C/G 

VERSE
 
Now old sweet Virgin Mary she runs the Holy Grail Saloon
 Em C/G 
Where for a nickel they'll give you whiskey and a personally blessed balloon
 
And the holy ghost he's the host with the most he runs the berlesque show
 Em C/G 
Where they let in for free but ooh hit you for your soul when you go
 
And Mary serves mass on Sunday and then she sells her body on Monday
 Em C/G 
To the bootlegger who will pay the highest price
 
Well he don't know he got stuck with the losin' Mary stone
 Em 
Junkie what's more she's a boozer She's only been made once or twice
by some kind of magic

G/B C/G C/G 
G/B C/G C/G 

 
Well things ain't been sane in heaven ever since big bad Bobby came to town
 Em C/G 
He's been known to down eleven and then ask for another round
 
And me I got scabs on my knees from kneelin' way to long
 Em C/G 
You got to take a stand, be a man up where you belong
 
And forget about the old friends in the old times
 Em 
But there's just too many new boys trying to work the same line.

G/B C/G C/G 

CHORUS
 Em 
Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my
Em C/G 
lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief oh and
Am 
papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line
Em 
still too many bad boys tryin' to work the same line

G/B C/G C/G 
G/B C/G C/G 

VERSE
 Em C/G 
Well there's a light ?on yonder ?mountain and it's callin' me to shine
 Em C/G 
There's a girl over by the water fountain and she's asking to be mine
 
And Jesus's he's standing in the doorway
 Em C/G 
with 6 guns drawn ready to fan
 
He says we need you up in Dodge City son
 Em 
I'm already overdue in Cheyane

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I'm on Fire

Bruce Springsteen

(from the album "Born in the USA")
INTRO: (repeat once) E E E E C#m7 C#m7 C#m7
Hey little girl is your daddy home
 
Did he go away and leave you all alone
 C#m7 
I got a bad desire Ohhhhhhhhh, I'm on fire
Tell me now baby is he good to you
 
Can he do to you the things that I do
 C#m7 
I can take you higher Ohhhhhhhhhh, I'm on fire

Repeat intro
 
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a
C#m7 
six-inch valley through the middle of my soul
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a
Freight train running through the middle of my head
 C#m7 
Only you can cool my desire Ohhhhhhhhh, I'm on fire

Repeat twice


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Man at the Top

Bruce Springsteen

Capo at 3

Bm Bm 

Bm 
Here comes a lawyer, here comes a cop
Here comes a wrench, here comes a car hop
Bm 
Been goin' on forever, ain't ever gonna stop
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Well, aim your gun son and shoot your shot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top

/ Dsus2 w/ hammer on D Dsus4 D/ Bm A /
/ D / G A /

Bm 
Now rich man poor man, beggar man thief
Doctor, lawyer, indian chief
Bm 
The ones we stop to ask a lot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Well, aim your gun son and shoot your shot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top

/ D / A Bm / G / A D /
Singin' ohhhhhh

repeat

Bm 
Man at the top says it's lonely up there
Bm Bm 
If it is man, well, I don't care
Bm 
From the big white house to the parking lot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top

Bm 
Here comes a banker, here comes a business man
Here comes a kid with a guitar in his hand
Bm 
Dreamin' of his record in the #1 spot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Bm 
Well, aim your gun son and shoot your shot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top

 🏠  16 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

Mansion on the Hill

Bruce Springsteen

 A7 
Intro:

 
There's a place out on the edge of town, sir,
 
Risin' above the factories and the fields
 
Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember
 A7 
That mansion on the hill

In the day you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir,
The mansion on the hill

At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride
Through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill

In the summer all the lights would shine
There'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time
Me and my sister, we'd hide out in the tall cornfields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill

Tonight down here in Linden Town
I watch the cars rushin' by, home from the mill
There's a beautiful full moon rising
Above the mansion on the hill

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Murder Incorporated

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO
 Dsus2 
|:[em]________________________:|

 Dsus2 
[em]Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow
 Dsus2 
[em]________________________
 Dsus2 
[em]Out on the street your chances are zero
 Dsus2 
[em]________________________
 Dsus2 
[em]Take a look around you (come on now)
It ain't too complicated
 Dsus2 
You're messin' with [em]Murder______
 Dsus2 
Incorpo[em]rated__________________

 Dsus2 
Now you [em]check over your shoulder everywhere that you go
 Dsus2 
[em]________________________
 Dsus2 
[em]Walkin' down the street there's eyes in every shadow
 Dsus2 
[em]________________________
 Dsus2 
You better [em]take a look around you (come on now)
 
That equipment you got's so outdated
 Dsus2 
You can't compete with [em]Murder______
 Dsus2 
Incorpo[em]rated______
Dsus2 
Everywhere you look now, [em]Murder______
 Dsus2 
Incorpo[em]rated__________________

SOLO
 Dsus2 
|:[em]________________________:|

 
So you [bm]keep a little secret down deep inside your dresser drawer
 
For [bm]deeling with the heat you're feelin' out on the killin' floor
 
No [bm]matter where you step you feel you're never out of danger
 B7 
So the comfort that you keep's a gold-plated snub-nose thirty-two
I heard that you

 Dsus2 
You got a [em]job downtown, man that leaves your head cold
 Dsus2 
[em]________________________
 Dsus2 
[em]Everywhere you look live ain't got no soul
 Dsus2 
[em]________________________
 Dsus2 
That a[em]partment you live in feels like it's just a place to hide
 
When you're walkin' down the street you won't meet no one eye to eye
 Dsus2 
The [em]cops reported you as just another homicide
 B7 
But I can tell that you were just frustrated
 Dsus2 
From living with Murder Incorporated [em]____________
Dsus2 
Everywhere you look now, [em]Murder______
 Dsus2 
Incorpo[em]rated__________________
 Dsus2 Dsus2 
[em]Murder______ Incorpo[em]rated__________________

 Dsus2 
|:[em]________________________:|

{d:A 1 0 2 2 2 0 0}
{d:B7 1 2 0 2 1 2 -1}
{d:C 1 0 1 0 2 3 3}
{d:D 1 2 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:Dsus2 1 0 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:G 1 3 0 0 0 2 3}
{d:bm 1 2 2 3 4 4 2}
{d:em 1 0 0 0 2 2 0}

transcribed by Gunnar Bittersmann
based on a transcription by Antti Kauppinen


 🏠  18 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

My Hometown

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: E/A A E/A A D A E Esus E Esus E A D

 E/A E/A 
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
 Esus Esus 
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
 E/A E/A 
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
 Esus Esus 
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
 E/A 
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
 Esus Esus E/A 
This is your hometown, this is your hometown

In `65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown, my hometown, my hometown

 F#m E/A E/A 
Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
 F#m E/A E/A 
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
 E/A E/A 
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
 
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to

Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
This is your hometown

 🏠  19 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

No Surrender

Bruce Springsteen


Key: F
Intro: | F | C | Bb | Bb | F | C | Bb | Bb |

Verse 1:
 
Well, we busted out of class, had to get away from the fools
 Bb 
We learned more from a 3 minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school
 
Tonight I hear that neighbourhood drummer sound
 
I can feel my heart begin to pound
 Bb 
You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes
 
And follow your dreams down

Chorus:
 Bb 
Well, we made a promise, swore we'd always remember
 Bb 
No retreat, baby, no surrender
 Bb 
Like soldiers on a winter's night with a vow to defend
 Bb 
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Verse 2:
Well now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind, I'm ready to grow young again
And hear your sister's voice calling us home across the open yard
Maybe we'll find someplace of our own with these drums and these guitars

Chorus

Bridge:
Lay lay lay lay lay lay, lay lay lay lay lay lay
Bb 
Lay lay lay lay lay lay, lay lay lay lay lay lay
Lay lay lay lay lay lay, lay lay lay lay lay lay
Bb 
Lay lay lay lay lay lay, lay lay lay lay lay lay

Verse 3:
Well on the streets tonight, the light's growing dim
The walls of my room are closing in
There's a war outside still raging, you say it ain't ours anymore to win,
I want to sleep beneath the peaceful skies in my lover's bed
With that wild open country in our eyes and those romantic dreams in my head

Chorus

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One Step Up

Bruce Springsteen

capo on 3rd fret

INTRO
Bb6 
______[F2/A]______[gm7]______[F2/A]______

Bb6 
Woke up this morning the house was cold
[F2/A] Checked the furnace she wasn't burnin'
[gm7] Went out and hopped in my old Ford
[F2/A] Hit the engine but she ain't turnin'
Bb6 
We've given each other some hard lessons lately
[F2/A] But we ain't learnin'
 Bb6 
We're[gm7] the same sad [F2/A]story that's a fact
 C4 Bb6 
One step up and two steps back [F2/A]______[gm7]______[F2/A]______


 Bb6 
Bird on a wire outside my motel room
[F2/A] But he ain't singin'
[gm7] Girl in white outside a church in June
[F2/A] But the church bells they ain't ringing
Bb6 
I'm sittin' here in this bar tonight
[F2/A] But all I'm thinkin' is
 Bb6 
[gm7] I'm the same old [F2/A]story same old act
 C4 Bb6 
One step up and two steps back [F2/A]______[gm7]______[F2/A]______

Bb6 
It's the same thing night on night
[F2/A] Who's wrong baby who's right
[gm7] Another fight and I slam the door on
[F2/A] Another battle in our dirty little war
Bb6 
When I look at myself I don't see
[F2/A] The man I wanted to be
 Bb6 
[gm7] Somewhere along the [F2/A]line I slipped off track
 C4 Bb6 
I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back [F2/A]______[gm7]______[F2/A]______


Bb6 
There's a girl across the bar
I[F2/A] get the message she's sending
[gm7] Mmm she ain't lookin' too married
[F2/A] And me well honey I'm pretending
Bb6 
Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms
[F2/A] The music was never-ending
 Bb6 
We [gm7]danced as the evening [F2/A]sky faded to black
 C4 Bb6 
One step up and two steps back [F2/A]______[gm7]______[F2/A]______

FADE OUT
 Bb6 
|:______[F2/A]______[gm7]______[F2/A]______:|

 🏠  21 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

Point Blank

Bruce Springsteen

capo on 2nd fret
INTRO
 
[c#m]________[f#m]________________________

Do you still [c#m]say your prayers little darlin' do you [f#m]go to bed at night
Prayin' that tomorrow everything will be alright
Well to[c#m]morrow's fall in number in [f#m]number one by one
 
You wake up and you're dying you don't even know what from

 
They shot you point blank you been shot in the [c#m]back
 
Baby point blank you been fooled this time that's a fact
 
Yea point blank right between the [c#m]eyes baby point blank[c#m]

You grew up where young girls they grow up fast
You [f#m]left behind what you asked
What they asked baby wasn't right
 
you didn't have to live that life
Well [c#m]you're gonna be my Juliet
These [f#m]days wait on that welfare check
 
and on all the pretty things you'll never have and on all the promises

 
That always end up point blank yea shot between the [c#m]eyes
Point blank like little white lies we tell to ease the pain
 
You're walkin' in the [c#m]sights baby point blank
one false move and baby the lights go [c#m]out

BREAK
 
|:[c#m]________[f#m]________________________:|

[c#m]Once I dreamed we were together again [f#m]baby you and me
 
Back home in those old clubs the way we used to be
We were [c#m]standin' at the bar it was hard to hear
The band was [f#m]playin' you were shoutin' somethin' in my ear
 
You pulled my jacket off as the drummer counted four
 
You took my hand and pulled me out on the floor
You just [c#m]stood there and you started dancin' slow
And I [f#m]swore I'd never let you go

 
Well I saw you last night out on the avenue
 
Your face was in the shadows but it was you
You were [c#m]standin' in the doorway out of the rain
You didn't [f#m]answer when I called out your name
 
You just turned and then you looked away
 
like just another stranger waitin' to get blown away

Point blank oh right between the [c#m]eyes
 
Baby point blank yea right between the pretty lies they tell
 
Ah you been shot straight through the [c#m]heart

 
Yea point blank you've been twisted up till you've become
 
just another part of it baby
 
You're walkin' in their [c#m]sights
 
Ah point blank yea one false move and baby the lights go out

FADE OUT
 
|:____________[c#m]____________________:|[c#m]__

{d:B 3 0 2 2 2 0 -1}
{d:E 3 2 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:A 3 3 0 0 0 2 3}
{d:c#m 3 2 3 4 4 2 -1}
{d:f#m 3 0 0 0 2 2 -1}





 🏠  22 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

Pony Boy

traditional, arrangement and additional lyrics by Bruce Springsteen


CHORUS
F(D) 
Pony boy pony boy
Bb(G) F(D) 
Won't you be my pony boy
 Bb(G) 
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoo
C(A) F(D) 
My pony boy

Ride with me ride with me
Bb(G) F(D) 
Won't you take a ride with me
 Bb(G) 
Underneath the starry sky
C(A) F(D) 
My pony boy

O'er the hills and through the trees
Bb(G) F(D) 
We'll go ridin' you and me
 Bb(G) 
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-away
C(A) F(D) 
My pony boy

CHORUS, BREAK

Down into the valley deep
Bb(G) F(D) 
'Neath the eaves we will sleep
 Bb(G) 
Sky of dreams up above
C(A) F(D) 
My pony boy

2x CHORUS

{d:Bb(G) 4 3 0 0 0 2 3}
{d:C(A) 4 0 2 2 2 0 0}
{d:F(D) 4 2 3 2 0 0 -1}

transcribed by Gunnar Bittersmann

capo on 3rd fret


 🏠  23 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

Red Headed Woman

Bruce Springsteen

NOTE:
Esus4 Asus2 
toggles when noted E toggles when noted A

YODEL
B7 
________________________

Well brunettes are fine man
And blondes are fun
But when it comes to getting a dirty job done

 
I'll take a red headed woman
 
A red headed woman
 B7 
It takes a red headed woman
 
To get a dirty job done

Well listen up stud
Your life's been wasted
Til you've got down on your knees and tasted

 
A red headed woman
 
A red headed woman
 B7 
It takes a red headed woman
 
To get a dirty job done

Tight skirt, strawberry hair
Tell me what you've got, baby, waiting under there
Big green eyes that look like, son
 B7 
They can see every cheap thing that you ever done

Well, I don't know how many girls you dated, man
But you ain't lived til you've had your tires rotated

 
By a red headed woman
 
A red headed woman
 B7 
It takes a red headed woman
 
To get a dirty job done

YODEL

{d:A 1 0 2 2 2 0 0}
{d:Asus2 1 0 0 2 2 0 0}
{d:B7 1 -1 0 2 1 2 -1}
{d:E 1 0 0 1 2 2 0}
{d:Esus4 1 0 0 2 2 2 0}

 🏠  24 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: C F C F

Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight
Am Gsus 
Forcin' a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this warm July
 
Down in town the circuit's full wit switchblade lovers so fast so shiny so sharp
 Am Gsus 
As the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark
 
And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers on
 Am 
the shore


 Gsus F/G G7 
Chasin' all them silly New York girls
F/G G7 
Sandy the aurora is risin' behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever
Dm7 G7 
Love me tonight for I may never see you again, hey Sandy girl


Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for trying to sleep on
the beach all night
Them boys in their spiked high heels ah Sandy their skins are so white
And me I just got tired of hangin' in them dusty arcades bangin' them pleasure
machines
Chasin' the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to unsnap
their jeans
And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag
I got on it last night and my shirt got caught
And that Joey kept me spinnin' I didn't think I'd ever get off

Oh Sandy the aurora is risin' behind us
The pier lights our carnival life on the water
Runnin' down the beach at night with my boss's daughter
Well he ain't my boss no more Sandy

Sandy the angels have lost their desire for us
I spoke to `em just last night and they said they won't set themselves on fire
for us anymore
Every summer when the weather gets hot they ride that road down from heaven on
their Harleys they come and they go
And you can see `em dressed like stars in all the cheap little seashore bars
parked making love with their babies out on the Kokomo
Well the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they
do
This boardwalk life for me is through
You know you ought to quit this scene too

Sandy the aurora's rising behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever
Oh love me tonight and I promise I'll love you forever

Dm7 G7 

 🏠  25 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

Seeds

Bruce Springsteen

Well a great black river a man had found
 
So he put all his money in a hole in the ground
 
And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down down
 
Now I live on the streets of Houston town

 
Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along
 
We headed down south with just spit and a song
 
But they said "Sorry son it's gone gone gone
 
It's gone gone gone it's all gone"

 
Well there's men hunkered down by the railroad tracks
 
Yeah that Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back
 
Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight
 
And I don't know just where I'm gonna sleep tonight

 
Parked in the lumberyard we're freezin' our asses off
 
My kids in the back seat they got a graveyard cough
 
Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife
 
Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle of the night
 
Says "Move along son move along"

 
Well a big limousine long shiny and black
 
Well you don't look ahead and you don't look back
 
How many times can you get up after you been hit?
 
Well I swear if I could spare the spit
 
I'd lay one on your shiny chrome
 
And send you on your way back home

 
So if you're gonna leave your town where the north wind blow
 
To go on down where that sweet soda river flow
 
Well you better think twice twice on it Jack
 
You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead off the rack
 
'Cause there ain't nothin' down here down here friend
 
Except seeds blowin' up the highway in the south wind
 
We're movin' on movin' on we're movin' on

{d:C 1 0 1 0 2 3 3}
{d:D 1 2 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:G 1 3 3 0 0 2 3}

 🏠  26 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

Spirit in the Night

Bruce Springsteen


acoustic version 8/6/92 The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, NJ
from the bootleg "USA Blues"

[em]
Crazy Janey and her [em]mission man[em7]
 
back in the alley [em]tradin' hands[em7]
 
`Long came Wild Billy with his [em]friend G-man[em7]
 
duded up for Saturday [am]night
Billy slammed on his [em]coaster brakes[em7]
 
said anybody wanna go on up to [em]Greasy Lake[em7]
 
It's about a mile down on the dark side of [em]Route 88[em7]
 
I got a bottle of rose let's [am]try it [am7]___[am]
 
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and [am]Killer Joe
 Dsus 
I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
 Dsus 
Built like light
 
And they dance like spirits in the [em]night (all [em7]night)
 
all night (all night)
Hey [am]baby don't know what it do [em]to you[em7]
 
Like a spirit in the [em]night (all [em7]night) all night (all night)
Stand [am]up now and let it shoot [em]through you

 
Well Wild Billy was a [em]crazy cat[em7]
 
he shook some dust out of his [em]coonskin cap[em7]
 
Cried "Trust some of this it'll [em]show you where you're [em7]at
 
at least it'll help you really [am]feel it" [am7]___[am]
 
By the time we made it up to [em]Greasy Lake[em7]
 
I had my head out the window and Janey's [em]fingers in the [em7]cake
 
I think I really dug her I was [em]too hard to [em7]fake
 
I said "I'm hurt" she said "Honey let me [am]heal it"
 
And we danced all night to a [am]soul fairy band
 Dsus 
And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
 Dsus 
Felt just right just as sweet as a
spirit in the [em]night (all [em7]night)
 
All night (all night) hey [am]baby don't know what it do [em]to you
 
Like a spirit in the night (all [em7]night) all night (all night)
Stand [am]up now and let it shoot [em]through you

[am]Huh huh... [em]huh
[am]Huh huh... [em]huh

 
Now the night grew bright the [em]stars threw [em7]light on Billy and
Davy
[em]Dancin' in the moon[em7]light
 
They were down near the water in a [em]stone mud fight[em7]
 
Killer Joe'd passed out on the [am]lawn
Hazy Davy he got [em]really hurt[em7]
 
he crawled into the lake in just his [em]socks and a shirt[em7]
Me and Crazy Janey were makin' [em]love in the dirt
 
singin' our birthday [am]songs
Janey said "It was [am]time we go"
 Dsus 
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row
 Dsus 
felt so right
 
Together we moved like spirits in the [em]night (all [em7]night)
 
all night (all night)
Oh [am]baby don't know what it do [em]to you[em7]
 
Like a spirit in the [em]night (all [em7]night) all night (all night)
Stand [am]up now and let it shoot [em]through you[em7]
 
Like spirits in the night (all night) all night (all night)
all [am]night (all night) all [em]night (all [em7]night)
 
all night (all night) all night (all night)
[am]Huh huh... [em]huh

{d:am 1 0 1 2 2 0 0}
{d:am7 1 3 1 2 2 0 0}
{d:C 1 0 1 0 2 3 3}
{d:D 1 2 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:Dsus 1 3 3 2 0 0 -1}
{d:em 1 0 0 0 2 2 0}
{d:em7 1 0 3 0 2 2 0}

transcribed by Gunnar Bittersmann

--
_ /_ Gunnar Bittersmann
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/ http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~gunnar/


 🏠  27 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

Streets Of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen


Am 
 
I was bruised and battered I couldn't tell what I felt
 Am 
I was unrecognizable to myself
 
saw my reflection in a window and didn't know my own face
 Am 
oh brother are you gonna leave me wasting like this on the
 Bb F/A Bb F/A 
streets of Philadelphia
(lie lie lie lah lie lie lie lah lie... )
I walked the avenue 'til my legs felt like stone
I heard voices of friends vanished and gone
At night I hear the blood in my veins
just as black and whispery as the rain on the streets of Philadelphia
Bb F/A Bb F/A 
Bb Dm 
Ain't no angel gonna greet me
Bb 
It's just you and I my friend
Am Bb 
and my clothes don't fit me no more I walked a
thousand miles just to slip this skin
The night is falling, I'm lying awake
I can feel myself fading away
so receive me brother with your fateless kiss or
will we leave each other alone like this on the
streets of Philadelphia...
Bb F/A 
(lie lie... )
(repeat and fade)

 🏠  28 / 33  ⮙     ⮛  

The Promised Land

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: (Harmonica) G C G Em C G

 Em 
On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert
 
I pick up my money and head back into town
 Em 
Driving cross the Waynesboro county line
 
I got the radio on and I'm just killing time
Em 
Working all day in my daddy's garage
Em Am 
Driving all night chasing some mirage
D7 
Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge

Chorus
 
The dogs on Main Street howl `cause they understand
 Em 
If I could take one moment into my hands
 
Mister I ain't a boy, no I'm a man
 Em 
And I believe in a promised land


I've done my best to live the right way
I get up every morning and go to work each day
But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode
Explode and tear this town apart
Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
Find somebody itching for something to start

The dogs on Main Street...

There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
Blow away the dreams that break your heart
Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted

The dogs on Main Street...
 Em Em 
...Promised Land, and I believe in the Promised Land, and I believe
 
in the Promised Land.


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The River

By Bruce Springsteen

F#m 
I come from down the valley where Mister when you're young
 F#m 
They bring you up to do just like your daddy done
 F#m 
Me and Mary we met in high school When she was just seventeen
 
We'd ride out of the valley down to where the fields were green.
Chorus
 F#m 
We'd go down to the river and into the river we'd dive
 F#m 
Oh down to the river we'd ride.
 F#m 
Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote
 F#m 
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
F#m 
We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest
F#m 
No wedding day smiles, no walk down the isles No flowers no wedding dress
Chorus

 F#m 
I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
 F#m 
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
 
Now all them things that seemed so important
 F#m 
Well mister they vanished right into the air
 
Now I act like I don't remember and Mary acts like she don't care
 F#m 
But I remember us riding in my brothers car
 
Her body tan and wet down by the reservoir
 F#m 
At night on them banks I'd lie awake and pull her close just to feel
 
every breath she'd take
 F#m 
Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse
 
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse
 F#m 
that sends me down....

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This Hard Land

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO
 
|:________________:|

 
Hey there mister, can you tell me what happened to the seeds I've
sown
 
Can you give me a reason sir as to why they've never grown
 
They've just blown around from town to town
 
Till they're back out on these fields
Where they fall from my hand
 
Back into the dirt of this hard land


 
Now me and my sister from Germantown
 
We did ride
 
We made our bed sir from the rock on the mountainside
 
We been blowin' around from town to town
 
Lookin' for a place to stand
 
Where the sun burst through the cloud
 
To fall like a circle
 
Like a circle of fire down on this hard land


 
Now even the rain it don't come 'round
 
It don't come 'round here no more
 
And the only sound at night's the wind
 
Slammin' the back porch door
 
It just stirs you up like it wants to blow you down
 
Twistin' and churnin' up the sand
 
Leavin' all them scarecrows lyin' face down
 
Face down in the dirt of this hard land

BREAK
 
|:________________:|
 
|:________________:|

 
From a building up on the hill
 
I can hear a tape deck blastin' "Home on the Range"
 
I can see them Bar-M choppers
Sweepin' low across the plains
 
It's me and you Frank we're lookin' for lost cattle
 
Our hooves twistin' and churnin' up the sand
 
We're ridin' in the whirlwind searchin' for lost treasure
 
Way down south of the Rio Grande
 
We're ridin' 'cross that river
 
In the moonlight
 
Up onto the banks of this hard land


 
Hey Frank won't ya pack your bags
 
And meet me tonight down at Liberty Hall
 
Just one kiss from you my brother
And we'll ride until we fall
 
We'll sleep in the fields
 
We'll sleep by the rivers and in the morning
 
We'll make a plan
 
Well if you can't make it
 
Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive
 
If you can
 
And meet me in a dream of this hard land

FADE OUT
 
|:________________:|
 
|:________________:|

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transcribed by Gunnar Bittersmann


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Thunder Road

Bruce Springsteen

 
Screen door slams, Mary's d[G-D-G]ress waves
 Bm 
Like a vision dancing across the porch as the radio plays
 
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me and I want you only
 
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again

Don't run back inside, honey, you know just what I'm here for
And you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that
young any more
show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but eh, you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

 
Ohh come take my hand We're ridin out tonight to case the Promised Land
 Bm 
Oh Thunder Road, Oh Thunder road, Oh Thunder Road
 Bm 
Lyin' out there like a killer in the dark
 
Hey I know it's late, we can make it if we run
 Bm 
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road
 
So I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
 Em 
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
 
From your front porch to my front seat
 Bm Em 
Door's open but the ride ain't free
 Am7 Am 
Well I know you've been [C-]waiting for words that I ain't spoken
 D+ D7 
Well tonight we'll be free--all the pro[D-]mises will be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They drive this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of
burned-out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on
Until you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win


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Tougher Than the Rest

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO
Bb 
______________

 
Well it's Saturday night
 
You're all dressed up in blue
 Bb 
I been watching you awhile
 
Maybe you been watching me too
 
So somebody ran out
 
Left somebody's heart in a mess
 Bb 
Well if you're looking for love
 
Honey I'm tougher than the rest

Some girls they want a handsome Dan
 
Or some good-lookin' Joe, on their arm
 Bb 
Some girls like a sweet-talkin' Romeo
 
Well 'round here baby
 
I learned you get what you can get
 Bb 
So if you're rough enough for love
 
Honey I'm tougher than the rest

 Bb 
The road is [dm]dark
 
And it's a thin thin line
 Bb 
But I want you to know I'll walk it for you any time
 Bb 
Maybe your other [dm]boyfriends
 
Couldn't pass the test
 Bb 
Well if you're rough and ready for love
 
Honey I'm tougher than the rest

SOLO
Bb 
______________
Bb 
______________

Well it ain't no secret
 
I've been around a time or two
 Bb 
Well I don't know baby maybe you've been around too
 
Well there's another dance
 
All you gotta do is say yes
 Bb 
And if you're rough and ready for love
 
Honey I'm tougher than the rest
 Bb 
If you're rough enough for love
 
Baby I'm tougher than the rest

FADE OUT

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{d:F 1 1 1 2 3 3 -1}
{d:dm 1 1 3 2 0 0 -1}

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