Bruce Springsteen

CAPO ON 3rd FRET!

	Em	G	C	G
Well, they	blew up th	e chicken man in	Philly last	night

	Em	G	C	G
Now, they	blew up hi	s house, too

	Em	G	C	G
Down on the	boardwalk th	ey're gettin' ready	for a	fight

	Em	G	C	G
Gonna	see what	them racket boys can	do

	Em	G	C	G
Now, there's	trouble bus	tin' in from	outta	state

	Em	G	C	G
And the	D.A. can'	t get no rel	ief

	Em	G	C	G
Gonna be a	rumble	out on the	promenade

	Em	G	C	D
And the	gamblin' commi	ssion's hangin' on by the	skin of his	teeth

Chorus

	Em	G	C	G
Well now,	ev'ryt	hing dies, baby,	that's a	fact

	Em	G	D	Em
But maybe	ev'rything th	at dies some	day comes	back

	G	C	G
Put your makeup	on, fix your	hair up	pretty

	Em	G	C	G
And	meet me t	onight in At	lantic C	ity

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...

D	C	Em
Now our	luck may have died and our	love may be cold

	C	D	Em
But	with you	forever I'll	stay

	C	Em
We're	goin' out where the sand's	turnin' to gold

C	G	C	G
Put on	your stockin's baby, `cause	the night's	gettin' cold

	C	G	C	G
And	maybe ev'ry	thing dies, baby,	that's a	fact

	C	G	D	C
But maybe	ev'rything	that dies some	day 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	G	A	Bm	G	A	Bm

Bm	G	A	Bm
Take me	now, baby,	here as I	am.

Bm	G	A	Bm
Pull me c	lose try and	underst	and.

	Bm	G	A	Bm
Des	ire is	hunger, is the	fire I	breathe.

Bm	G	A	Bm
Love is a b	anquet on	which we fe	ed.

G	A	D	A
Come on	now, try and	under	stand

	Bm	G	A
the	way I	feel when I'm in your	hand.

D	G	A
Take my	hand; come under	cover.

	C	Bm	F#
They	can't hurt you now,	can't hurt you now,	can't hurt you now.

chorus:

Chorus

Bm	G	A	Bm
Because the	night be	longs to	lovers.

Bm	G	A	Bm
Because the	night be	longs to	lust.

Bm	G	A	Bm
Because the	night be	longs to	lovers.

Bm	G	A	Bm
Because the	night be	longs 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

	D	A	D	A	Bm	A
With	love	we sleep;	with doub	t the viscio	us ci	rcle turn and turns.

D	A	Bm	A	D	A
Wit	hout y	ou I c	annot	live, fo	rgive the yearning, burning

	G	D	G
I be	lieve	in ti	me, too real to feel,

	Bm	D	G	F#
so	touch	me now,	touch me now, t	ouch me now.

Repeat chorus and fade

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Better Days

Bruce Springsteen

Well my soul checked out missin' as I sat listenin'

E	C#m
To the hours and minutes tickin' a	way.

	F#m
Yeah, just	sittin around waitin' for my life to begin

F#m	A
While it was all just slippin' a	way

	E
Well I'm	tired of waitin' for tomorrow to come

E	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
A women I can call my	friend

CHORUS 1:

A	E
These are Better	Days, baby

E	A
Yeah, there's Better Days shinin'	through

A	E
These are Better	Days, baby

	F#m	A	E
Better	Days with a	girl like	you

Well I took a piss at fortune's sweet kiss

E	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	A
To be a rich man in a poor man's	shirt

	E
Now my	ass was draggin from a passin' gypsy wagon

E	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:

A	E
These are Better	Days, baby

E	A
Yeah, there's Better Days shinin'	through

A	E
These are Better	Days, baby

	A	B	E
Better	Days are	shining	through

: A C#m F#m A E

Now a life of leisure, and a pirate's treasure

E	C#m
Don't make much for trage	dy.

	F#m
It's a	sad man, my friend, whose livin' in his own skin,

F#m	A
And can't stand the compa	ny.

	E
Every	fools got a reason to feel sorry for himself

E	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	A
And I feel like I'm comin'	home!

CHORUS 1

CHORUS 2

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Bobby Jean

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: A E B7

	A	E
Well	I came by your house the other day, your	mother said you went away

	D
She said	there was nothing that I could have done

	B7
There was	nothing nobody could say

	A	E
Now	me and you we've known each other ev	er since we were sixteen

	D
I wish	I would've known I wished I could have called you

	B7	A	E	D	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

	D	F#m
Now	we went walking in the rain	talking about the pain from the world we hid

	D	A	E
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	D	E
But just to say I	miss you baby, good luck, good	bye, Bobby Jean

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Born to run

Bruce Springsteen

	G	C
	In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a	runaway

	D
American	dream

	G	C	D7
At	night we ride through mansions of glory in	suicide	machines

	C	G
	Sprung from cages on	highway 9

	Am	D	C
Chrome	wheels, fuel injected and	steppin' out over the	line

	C	G
	Baby, this town rips the	bones from your back

	Am	D
It's a	death trap, it's a	suicide rap

	C	Am
I wanna	get out while I'm still	young

	C	D	G
'Cause	tramps like us,	baby we were born to	run

	G
	Well, Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend, I wanna

	C	D
	guard your dreams and	visions

	G
Just	wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims, strap your

	C	D
	hands across my	engines

	C	G
And to	gether we could	break this trap

	Am	D	C
We'll	run til we drop, and	baby we'll never go	back

	C	G
	Walk with me out	on the wire

	Am	D
	Girl, I'm just a scared and	lonely rider

	C	Am
And I	gotta know how it	feels

	C	D	G
I wanna	know if love is wild, I	wanna know if love is	real

	D	F
	Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones	scream down the

boulevard

	C
The girls	comb their hair in the rear view mirrors and the

	Am	G
	boys try to look so	hard

	D	F
The a	musement park rises bold and stark, kids are	huddled on

the beach in the mist

	C
Well, I wanna	die with you Wendy on the streets tonight in

	Am	D
an	everlasting	kiss

	G	C
Well, the	highway's jammed with broken heroes on a	last

	D
chance power	drive

	G	C
Every	body's out on the run tonight, but there ain't	no place

	D
left to	hide

	C	G
To	gether we could	live with the sadness

	Am	D	C
I'll	love you with all the	maddness in my	soul

	G
Someday, baby, I	don't know when

	Am	D	C
We're gonna	get to that place that we	really wanna	go

	C	Am
	And we'll walk in the	sun

	C	D	G
Til then,	tramps like us,	baby we were born to	run

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Brilliant Disguise

Bruce Springsteen

capo on 2nd fret

	A	Asus2	Asus4	A
\|:	______	______	______	______:\|

	Asus2	Asus4	A
I hold you in my	arms	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
As the band	plays	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
What are those words whispered	baby	______

	E	Esus2	E
Just as you	turn away	_____

	A	Asus2	Asus4	A
I	saw you last	night	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
Out on the edge of	town	______

	Asus2
I wanna read your	mind

	Asus4	A
To know	just what I've	got in

	E	Esus2	E
This	new thing I've found	_____

	A	D	A
So tell me [f#m]what I	see	_____

	A	D	A
When I [f#m]look in your	eyes	_____

	A	E
Is that [f#m]you	___	baby

	A	E	A
Or [f#m]just a [bm]brilliant dis	gui__	__	se

	Asus2	Asus4	A
I heard somebody call your	name	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
From underneath our wil	low ___	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
I saw something tucked in	shame	______

	E	Esus2	E
Under	neath your pillow	_____

	A	Asus2	Asus4	A
Well I've	tried so hard	baby	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
But I just can't	see ___	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
What a woman like	you ___	______

	E	Esus2	E
Is	doing with me	_____

	A	D	A
So tell me [f#m]who I	see	_____

	A	D	A
When I [f#m]look in your	eyes	_____

	A	E
Is that [f#m]you	___	baby

	A	E	A
Or [f#m]just a [bm]brilliant dis	gui__	__	se

	E	Esus4
Now	look at me baby

E	A	Asus2	A
Struggling to do	everything right	_____

	D	Dsus2	D
And then it	all falls apart	_____

	A	Asus2	A
When	out go the lights	_____

	E	Esus4	E
I'm just a	lonely pilgrim	_____

	D
I walk this	world in wealth

	A	Asus2
I wanna know if it's	you I don't trust

A	E	Esus2
'Cause I damn sure	don't trust myself

E	A	Asus2	Asus4	A
Now you play the	loving	woman	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
I'll play the faithful	man	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
But just don't look too	close	______

	E	Esus2	E
Into the	palm of my hand	_____

	A	Asus2	Asus4
We stood	at the	altar

	A	Asus2	Asus4	A
The gypsy	swore our future was	right	______

	Asus2
But come the wee wee	hours

	Asus4	A	E	Esus2	E
Well	maybe	baby the	gypsy lied	_____

	A	D
So when you [f#m]look at	me

	A	A	D	A
You	better look [f#m]hard and look	twice	_____

	A	E
Is that [f#m]me_	___	baby

	A	E	A
Or [f#m]just a [bm]brilliant dis	gui__	__	se

	Asus2	Asus4
Tonight our bed is	cold

	A	Asus2	Asus4	A
I'm lost	in the darkness of our	love	______

	Asus2	Asus4	A
God have mercy on the	man	______

	E	A
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."

	G	G	C	G
Yea,	when I was a	little kid see I	never liked to ea	t

	G	G	D	D
And	Mama put things	on my plate and I'd	dump `em on her fe	et

	G	G	C	G
But	then one day she	made this soup I	ate it all in	bed

	G	G	D	G
I	asked her what she put	in it, well	this is what she	said

	G	G	C	G
Oh	chicken lips and	lizard hips and	alligator ey	es

	G	G	D	D
Yea	monkey legs and	buzzard eggs and	salimander	thighs

	G	G	C	G
Well,	rabbit ears and	camel rears and	tasty toenail p	ies

G	G	D	G
Stir `em all toge	ther and it's	Mama's Soup	Surprise.

	G	G	C	G
Well now	I went in the	bathroom and I	stood beside the si	nk

	G	G	D	D
I said I'm	feeling slightly i	ll and I'd t	hink I'd like a dr	ink

G	G	C	G
Mama said I have	just the thing, I'll	get it in a wi	nk

	G	G	D	G
It's	full of lots of	protein and	vitamins, I	think

	G	G	C	G
It was	chicken lips and	lizard hips and	alligator ey	es

	G	G	D	D
Yea	monkey legs and	buzzard eggs and	salimander	thighs

G	G	C	G
Rabbit ears and	camel rears and	tasty toenail p	ies

G	G	D	G
Stir `em all toge	ther 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

	G	C
	Well they're still racing out at the	Trestles

	G	C
But that blood	it never burned in her	veins

	G	C
Now I hear	she's got a house up in F	airview

	G	C
And a style	she's trying to maint	ain

	G	C	G	Em
	Well if	she wants to see	me

	G	C
You can	tell her that	I'm easily found

	G	C	G	Em
	Tell her there's	a spot out `neath	Abram's	Bridge

	D	Dm7	C	D
Tell her	there's a darkness on the	edge of	town

	C	G	C
There's a darkness on the	ed	ge of	town

	G	C
	Everybody's got a se	cret Sonny

	G	C
Some	thing that they just can't face

	G	C
Some folks spend	their whole lives trying to keep	it

	G	C
They carry it	with them every step that they take

	G	C	G	Em
Till	some day	they just cut it	loose

	G	C	G	Em
Cut it	loose or let	it drag `em dow	n

	G	C
Where no one	asks any	questions

	G	Em
Or looks too	long in	your face

	D	Dm7	C	D
	In the darkness on the	edge of	town

	C	G	C
There's a darkness on the	ed	ge 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

	G
We're driving in my	car, I turn on the radio.

	Am	G
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.

	C	D	G
'Cause when we	kiss,	ooh,	fire.

	G
Late at	night, I'm taking you home.

	Am	G
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.

	C	D	G
'Cause when we	kiss,	ooh,	fire.

	C	G
You've had a	hold on me right	from the start,

	D	G
A	grip so tight I couldn't	tear it apart.

	C	G
My	nerves' all jumping, acting	like a fool,

	A7	D
Well your	kisses they burn, but your	heart stays cool.

	G
Oh Romeo and Juli-	et, Sampson and Delilah,

	Am	G
Baby you can	bet, their love they didn't	deny.

	Am	Em
Your words say	split, but your words they	lie.

	C	D	G
'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...

A	D	A	D
I had a friend was a big b	aseball player	back in high sc	hool

A	D	A	D
He could throw that s	peed ball by you, m	ake you look like a f	ool boy

E	D
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar, I was walkin'	in he was

	E	D
walkin' out. We went bac	k inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but al	l he

	E
kept talkin' abo	ut

	A	D	A
Glory D	ays, well they'll p	ass you by, Glory D	ays, in

	D	A	E
the wink of a yo	ung girls eye Glory Day	s, 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

A	G*	D
You and me we	were the pre	tenders

A	G*	D
We let it all	slip a	way

A	G*	D
In the end what you	don't sur	render

G	A
Well the world just strips a	way

A	G*	D
Girl, ain't no kindness in the	face of	strangers

A	G*	D
Ain't gonna find no	miracles	here

A	G*	D
Well you can wait on your	blesses my	darling

G	A
I got a deal for you right	here

G	D
I ain't looking for	praise or pity

G	D	G
I ain't coming 'round	searching for a	crutch

G	D
I just want	someone to talk to

G	A
And a little of that Human	Touch

G	A
Just a little of that Human	Touch

A	G*	D
Ain't no mercy on the	streets of	this town

A	G*	D
Ain't no bread from	Heavenly	skies

A	G*	D
Ain't nobody drawing	wine from	this blood

G	A
It's just you and me to	night

G	D
Tell me, in a	world without pity

G	D	G
Do you think what I'm	askin's too	much

G	D
I just want something	to hold on to

G	A
And a little of that Human	Touch

G	A
Just a little of that Human	Touch

	G	D	A
Oh girl that	feeling of	safety that you	prize

	Em
Well it	comes at a hard hard price

	G	D	A
You can't	shut off the	risk and the	pain

	Em
Without	losing the love that remains

	G
We're all riders on this	train

A	G*	D
So you've been broken	and you've	been hurt

A	G*	D
Show me some	body who	ain't

A	G*	D
Yeah, I know I ain't	nobody's	bargain

G	A
But, hell, a little touch up and a little	paint...

G	D
You might need something	to hold on to

G	D	G
When all the answers,	they don't amount to	much

G	D
Somebody that	you could just to talk to

G	A
And a little of that Human	Touch

G	D
Baby, in a	world without pity

G	D	G
Do you think what I'm	askin's too mu	ch

G	D
I just want to	feel you in my arms

G	A
Share a little of that Human	Touch

G	A
Feel a little of that Human	Touch

G	A
Give me a little of that Human	Touch

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Hungry Heart

Bruce Springsteen

Intro

C	Am7	Dm7
		[G7sus]

C	Am7
Got a wife and kids in	Baltimore Jack

Dm7

I went out for a ride and [G7sus]I never went back

C	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

C	Am7
Everybody's got a	hungry heart

Dm7

Everybody's got a [G7sus]hungry heart

C	Am7
Lay down your money and you	play your part

Dm7

Everybody's got a [G7sus]huh-uh-un-gry heart

C	Am7
I met her in a	Kingstown bar

Dm7

We fell in love I knew [G7sus]it had to end

C	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]

C	Am7
Everybody needs a	place to rest

Dm7

Everybody wants to [G7sus]have a home

C	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

C	Am7	Dm7
---	-----	-----[G7sus]------

C	Am7
Got a wife and kids in	Baltimore Jack

Dm7

I went out for a ride and [G7sus]I never went back

C	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

C	Am7
Everybody's got a	hungry heart

Dm7

Everybody's got a [G7sus]hungry heart

C	Am7
Lay down your money and you	play your part

Dm7

Everybody's got a [G7sus]huh-uh-un-gry heart

C	Am7
I met her in a	Kingstown bar

Dm7

We fell in love I knew [G7sus]it had to end

C	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]----

---

C	Am7
Everybody needs a	place to rest

Dm7

Everybody wants to [G7sus]have a home

C	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	G	C/G

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

VERSE

	G	G	D	D	Em	D	C	C/G
Well there's a	light ?	on yonder ?	mounta	in and it's	callin'	me to sh	ine

	G	G	D	D	Em	D	C	C/G
There's a g	irl over	by the water	fountai	n and she's	asking	to be m	ine

	G	G	D	D
And ain't that	Jesus's he's	standing in the	doorwa	y

	Em	D	C	C/G
with a buckskin	jacket, boots and	spurs so really f	ine

	G	G	D	D
He says we n	eed you u	p in Dodge C	ity son	because there's

	Em	D	C
	oh so many bad	boys tryin' to	work the same line

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

CHORUS

	G	D	Em	D
Well now if	Jesus was the s	heriff and I	was the	priest if my

Em	D	C	C/G
lady was an	heiress and my ma	ma was a th	ief oh and

G	D	C	Am
papa rode shotgun	for the Fargo	line

Em	D	C
still too many	bad boys tryin' to	work the same line

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

VERSE

	G	G	D	D
Now o	ld sweet Virgin	Mary she runs the	Holy Grail Sal	oon

	Em	D	C	C/G
Where for a	nickel they'll give you	whiskey and a	personally blessed b	alloon

	G	G	D	D
And the	holy ghost he's the	host with the most he	runs the berlesque show

	Em	D	C	C/G
Where they let	in for free but ooh	hit you for your	soul when you	go

	G	G	D	D
And	Mary serves mass on	Sunday and then she	sells her body on	Monday

	Em	D	C	C/G
To the	bootlegger who will	pay the highest	price

	G	G	D	D
Well	he don't know he got	stuck with the	losin' Mary s	tone

	Em	D	C
	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	G	C/G

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

	G	G	D	D
Well things	ain't been sane in	heaven ever since big bad	Bobby came to t	own

	Em	D	C	C/G
He's been	known to down e	leven and then	ask for another ro	und

	G	G	D	D
And	me I got	scabs on my knees from	kneelin' way to l	ong

	Em	D	C	C/G
You	got to take a stand, be a	man	up where you b	elong

	G	G	D	D
And for	get about the	old friends	in the old t	imes

	Em	D	C
But there's	just too many	new boys trying to	work the same line.

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

CHORUS

	G	D	Em	D
Well now if	Jesus was the s	heriff and I	was the	priest if my

Em	D	C	C/G
lady was an	heiress and my ma	ma was a th	ief oh and

G	D	C	Am
papa rode shotgun	for the Fargo	line

Em	D	C
still too many	bad boys tryin' to	work the same line

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

G/B	C/G	G	C/G

VERSE

	G	G	D	D	Em	D	C	C/G
Well there's a	light ?	on yonder ?	mounta	in and it's	callin'	me to sh	ine

	G	G	D	D	Em	D	C	C/G
There's a g	irl over	by the water	fountai	n and she's	asking	to be m	ine

	G	G	D	D
And	Jesus's he's	standing in the	doorwa	y

	Em	D	C	C/G
with 6 guns d	rawn	ready to f	an

	G	G	D	D
He says we n	eed you u	p in Dodge C	ity son

	Em	D	C
I'm a	lready over	due in Che	yane

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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

	A
Did he go away and leave you all alone

	C#m7	A	B	E
I got a bad de	sire	Ohhhhhhh	hh, I'm on	fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you

	A
Can he do to you the things that I do

	C#m7	A	B	E
I can take you	higher	Ohhhhhhhh	hh, I'm on	fire

Repeat intro

	A
Sometimes it's like	someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a

E	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

	A	C#m7	A	B	E
Only you	can cool my	desire	Ohhhhhhh	hh, I'm on	fire

Repeat twice

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Man at the Top

Bruce Springsteen

Capo at 3

D	Bm	D	G	A	D	Bm	G	A

D	Bm
Here comes a lawyer,	here comes a cop

D	G	A
Here comes a wrench,	here comes a	car hop

D	Bm
Been goin' on forever,	ain't ever gonna stop

G	A	D
Everybody wants to be the	man at the	top

D	Bm
Everybody wants to be the ma	n at the top

D	Bm	A
Everybody wants to be the ma	n at the	top

D	Bm
Well, aim your gun son and	shoot your shot

G	A	D
Everybody wants to be the	man at the	top

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

/ D / G A /

D	Bm
Now rich man poor man,	beggar man thief

D	G	A
Doctor, lawyer,	indian	chief

D	Bm
The ones we stop to	ask a lot

G	A	D
Everybody wants to be the	man at the	top

D	Bm
Everybody wants to be the ma	n at the top

D	Bm	A
Everybody wants to be the ma	n at the	top

D	Bm
Well, aim your gun son and	shoot your shot

G	A	D
Everybody wants to be the	man at the	top

/ D / A Bm / G / A D /

Singin' ohhhhhh

repeat

G	A	Bm
Man at the top says it's	lonely up	there

D	Bm	D	Bm
If it	is man, well,	I don'	t care

G	A	Bm
From the big white house to the	parking	lot

G	A	D
Everybody wants to be the	man at th	e top

D	Bm
Here comes a banker, he	re comes a business man

D	G	A
Here comes a ki	d with a	guitar in his hand

D	Bm
Dreamin' of his reco	rd in the #1 spot

G	A	D
Everybody wants to be the	man at the	top

D	Bm
Everybody wants to be the ma	n at the top

D	Bm	A
Everybody wants to be the ma	n at the	top

D	Bm
Well, aim your gun son and	shoot your shot

G	A	D
Everybody wants to be the	man at the	top

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Mansion on the Hill

Bruce Springsteen

	D	G	D	G	D	G	D	A7	D
Intro:

	D	G	D
T	here's a place out o	n the edge of	town, sir,

	G	D
Risin' above the f	actories and th	e fields

	G	D
Now, e	ver since I was a child, I can re	member

	A7	D
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	G	A
\|:[em]______	______	______	______:\|

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]Bobby's got a	gun that he	keeps beneath his	pillow

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]______	______	______	______

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]Out on the	street your	chances are	zero

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]______	______	______	______

	Dsus2
[em]Take a look around you	(come on now)

G	A
It ain't too compli	cated

	Dsus2	G
You're messin' with [em]Murder	______

	A	Dsus2	G	A
In	corpo[em]rated	______	______	______

	Dsus2	G	A
Now you [em]check over your	shoulder	everywhere that	you go

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]______	______	______	______

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]Walkin' down the	street there's	eyes in every	shadow

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]______	______	______	______

	Dsus2
You better [em]take a look around you	(come on now)

	G	A
That e	quipment you got's so out	dated

	Dsus2	G
You can't compete with [em]Murder	______

	A	Dsus2
In	corpo[em]rated	______

G	A	Dsus2	G
Everywhere you	look now, [em]Murder	______

	A	Dsus2	G	A
In	corpo[em]rated	______	______	______

SOLO

	Dsus2	G	A
\|:[em]______	______	______	______:\|

	D
So you [bm]keep a little secret down	deep inside your dresser drawer

	D
For [bm]deeling with the heat you're feelin'	out on the killin' floor

	D
No [bm]matter where you step you feel you're	never out of danger

	C	B7
So the	comfort that you keep's a gold-	plated snub-nose thirty-two

I heard that you

	Dsus2	G	A
You got a [em]job down	town,	man that leaves your	head cold

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]______	______	______	______

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]Everywhere you	look live	ain't got	no soul

	Dsus2	G	A
[em]______	______	______	______

	Dsus2
That a[em]partment you live in feels like it's	just a place to hide

	G	A
When you're	walkin' down the street you won't meet	no one eye to eye

	Dsus2
The [em]cops reported you as just an	other homicide

	G	B7
But I can	tell that you were just frus	trated

	Dsus2
From living with Murder Incorporated [em]______	______

G	A	Dsus2	G
Everywhere you	look now, [em]Murder	______

	A	Dsus2	G	A
In	corpo[em]rated	______	______	______

	Dsus2	G	A	Dsus2	G	A
[em]Murder	______	In	corpo[em]rated	______	______	______

	Dsus2	G	A
\|:[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

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My Hometown

Bruce Springsteen

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

	E/A	A	E/A	A	D	A	E
I was	eight	years	old	and	runni	ng wit	h a dime in my hand

	Esus	E	Esus	E	A	D
Into the	bus s	top to pick	up a	paper	fo	r my old man

	E/A	A	E/A	A	D	A	E
I'd	sit on	his la	p in	that bi	g old Buick	and steer as w	e drove through town

	Esus	E	Esus	E	A	D
He'd	tousl	e my hair and	say s	on take a	goo	d look around

	A	E/A	A	D	A	E
This is	you	r ho	metown, th	is is	you	r hometown

	Esus	E	Esus	E	A	D	E/A	A
This is	your	hometown,	this	is your ho	metown

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	A	E/A	A
Now	Main Stree	t's	whitewashed	windo	ws and vacant stores

	F#m	E/A	A	E/A	A
Seems	like there	ain't	nob	ody w	ants to come down here no more

	D	E/A	A	E/A	A
They're	closing dow	n the text	ile mill ac	ross	the railroad tracks

	D	A	E
Foreman	says the	se 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

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No Surrender

Bruce Springsteen

Key: F

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

Verse 1:

	F	C
Well, we	busted out of class, had to get	away from the fools

	Bb	F	C
We learned	more from a 3 minute record, baby, than we	ever learned in	school

	F
Ton	ight I hear that neighbourhood drummer sound

	C
I can	feel my heart begin to pound

	Bb
You say	you're tired and you just want to close your eyes

	F	C
And	follow your dreams	down

Chorus:

	F	C	Bb	F
Well, we	made a	promise, swore we'd	always re	member

	Bb	C	F
No re	treat, baby,	no sur	render

	F	C	Bb	F
Like	soldiers on a	winter's night with a	vow to de	fend

	Bb	C	F
No re	treat, baby,	no sur	render

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:

F	C
Lay lay lay lay lay lay,	lay lay lay lay lay lay

F	C	Bb
Lay lay lay lay lay lay,	lay lay lay lay lay lay

F	C
Lay lay lay lay lay lay,	lay lay lay lay lay lay

F	C	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]______:\|

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Point Blank

Bruce Springsteen

capo on 2nd fret

INTRO

	B	A
[c#m]________[f#m]________	________	________

Do you still [c#m]say your prayers little darlin' do you [f#m]go to bed at night

B	A
Prayin' that tomorrow every	thing will be alright

Well to[c#m]morrow's fall in number in [f#m]number one by one

	B	A
You	wake up and you're dying you don't	even know what from

	E	B
They shot you	point blank you been	shot in the [c#m]back

	B	A
Baby	point blank you been	fooled this time that's a fact

	E	B	B
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

	A
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

	B	A
and on	all the pretty things you'll never have and on	all the promises

	E	B
That always end up	point blank yea	shot between the [c#m]eyes

B	A	E
Point blank like	little white lies we tell to ease the	pain

	B	B
You're	walkin' in the [c#m]sights baby	point blank

one false move and baby the lights go [c#m]out

BREAK

	B	A
\|:[c#m]________[f#m]________	________	________:\|

[c#m]Once I dreamed we were together again [f#m]baby you and me

	B	A
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

	B
You pulled my	jacket off as the drummer counted four

	A
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

	B
Well I	saw you last night out on the avenue

	A
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

	B
You just	turned and then you looked away

	A
like	just another stranger waitin' to get blown away

E	B
Point blank oh	right between the [c#m]eyes

	B	A	E
Baby	point blank yea	right between the pretty lies they	tell

	B
Ah you been	shot straight through the [c#m]heart

	B	A
Yea	point blank you've been	twisted up till you've become

	E
just another	part of it baby

	B
You're	walkin' in their [c#m]sights

	B	A	E
Ah	point blank yea	one false move and baby the lights go	out

FADE OUT

	E	B	B	A
\|:	________	____[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}

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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-a	way

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 a	bove

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

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Red Headed Woman

Bruce Springsteen

NOTE:

E	Esus4	A	Asus2
toggles	when noted E	toggles	when noted A

YODEL

E	A	E	B7	E
________	____	____	____	____

Well brunettes are fine man

And blondes are fun

But when it comes to getting a dirty job done

	A
I'll take a	red headed woman

	E
A	red headed woman

	B7
It takes a	red headed woman

	E
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
A	red headed woman

	E
A	red headed woman

	B7
It takes a	red headed woman

	E
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

	E	B7	E
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

	A
By a	red headed woman

	E
A	red headed woman

	B7
It takes a	red headed woman

	E
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}

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4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: C F C F

C	F	C
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

	C	F	C
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

	F	G	C
And the	boys from the casino dance	with their shirts open like	Latin lovers on

	Am
the	shore

	Gsus	G	F/G	G7
Chasin'	all them silly New York	girls

F	C	F	C	F/G	G	G7	F	C	F	C	F
San	dy	the aurora	is risin' be	hind	us,	the	pier	lights our	carnival	life forev	er

F	C	F	C	G	Dm7	G7	C
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

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	F

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Seeds

Bruce Springsteen

G	C	G	C	G
Well a	great black	river a	man had	found

	C	G	C	G
So he	put all his	money in a	hole in the	ground

	C	G	D	G
And sent a	big steel	arm drivin'	down down	down

	C	D	G
Now I	live on the streets of	Houston	town

	C	G	C	G
Packed up my	wife and	kids when winter	came a	long

	C	G	C	G
We	headed down	south with just	spit and a	song

	C	G	D	G
But they said	"Sorry	son it's	gone gone	gone

	C	D	G
It's	gone gone	gone it's all	gone"

	C	G	C	G
Well there's	men hunkered	down by the	railroad	tracks

	C	G	C	G
Yeah that	Elkhorn	Special blowin'	my hair	back

	C	G	C	G
Tents	pitched on the	highway in the	dirty moon	light

	C	G	D	G
And I	don't know just	where I'm gonna	sleep to	night

	C	G	C	G
Parked in the	lumber	yard we're freezin' our	asses	off

	C	G	C	G
My	kids in the back	seat they got a	graveyard	cough

	C	G	C	G
Well I'm	sleepin'	up in front	with my	wife

	C	G	C	G
Billy club	tappin' on the	windshield in the	middle of the	night

	C	G	D	G
Says	"Move a	long son	move a	long"

	C	G	C	G
Well a	big limou	sine long	shiny and	black

	C	G	C	G
Well you	don't look a	head and you	don't look	back

	C	G	C	G
How many	times can you	get up after	you been	hit?

	C	G	C	G
Well I	swear if	I could	spare the	spit

	C	G	C	G
I'd	lay one	on your	shiny	chrome

	C	G	D	G
And	send you	on your	way back	home

	C	G	C	G
So if you're gonna	leave your	town where the	north wind	blow

	C	G	C	G
To	go on down where that	sweet soda	river	flow

	C	G	C	G
Well you	better think	twice twice	on it	Jack

	C	G	C	G
You're better off	buyin' a	shotgun	dead off the	rack

	C	G	C	G
'Cause there	ain't nothin'	down here	down here	friend

	C	G	D	G
Except	seeds blowin'	up the highway	in the south	wind

	C	D	G
We're movin'	on movin'	on we're movin'	on

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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]

	D
	back in the alley [em]tradin' hands[em7]

	C
`Long came	Wild Billy with his [em]friend G-man[em7]

	D
	duded up for Saturday [am]night

Billy slammed on his [em]coaster brakes[em7]

	D
said any	body wanna go on up to [em]Greasy Lake[em7]

	C
It's about a	mile down on the dark side of [em]Route 88[em7]

	D
I got a	bottle of rose let's [am]try it [am7]___[am]

	C
We'll pick	up Hazy Davy and [am]Killer Joe

	D	Dsus	D
I'll	take you all out to where the	gypsy angels go

	Dsus
Built like light

	D
And they	dance like spirits in the [em]night (all [em7]night)

	D
all	night (all night)

Hey [am]baby don't know what it do [em]to you[em7]

	D
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

	C
Well	Wild Billy was a [em]crazy cat[em7]

	D
he	shook some dust out of his [em]coonskin cap[em7]

	C
Cried	"Trust some of this it'll [em]show you where you're [em7]at

	D
at	least it'll help you really [am]feel it" [am7]___[am]

	C
By the	time we made it up to [em]Greasy Lake[em7]

	D
I had my	head out the window and Janey's [em]fingers in the [em7]cake

	C
I	think I really dug her I was [em]too hard to [em7]fake

	D
I said "I'm	hurt" she said "Honey let me [am]heal it"

	C
And we	danced all night to a [am]soul fairy band

	D	Dsus	D
And she	kissed me just right like only a	lonely angel can

	Dsus	D
Felt just right	just as	sweet as a

spirit in the [em]night (all [em7]night)

	D
All	night (all night) hey [am]baby don't know what it do [em]to you

	D
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

	C	D
Now the	night grew bright the [em]stars threw [em7]light on	Billy and

Davy

[em]Dancin' in the moon[em7]light

	C
They were	down near the water in a [em]stone mud fight[em7]

	D
Killer	Joe'd passed out on the [am]lawn

Hazy Davy he got [em]really hurt[em7]

	D
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

	D
	singin' our birthday [am]songs

Janey said "It was [am]time we go"

	D	Dsus	D
So we	closed our eyes and said goodbye to	gypsy angel row

	Dsus
felt so right

	D
Together we	moved like spirits in the [em]night (all [em7]night)

	D
all	night (all night)

Oh [am]baby don't know what it do [em]to you[em7]

	D
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]

	D
Like spirits in the night (all night) all	night (all night)

all [am]night (all night) all [em]night (all [em7]night)

	D
all night (all night) all	night (all night)

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

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_ /_ Gunnar Bittersmann

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Streets Of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen

F	Am	F	A

	F
I was	bruised and battered I couldn't tell what I felt

	Am
I was	unrecognizable to myself

	F
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	C	Bb	F/A	C
streets of Ph	iladelphia

(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	C	Bb	F/A

Bb	Dm
Ain't no angel gonna gr	eet me

Bb	F
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)

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The Promised Land

Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: (Harmonica) G C G Em C G

	G	Em
On a	rattlesnake speedway in the	Utah desert

	C	G
I	pick up my money and head back into	town

	Em
Driving cross the Waynesboro cou	nty line

	C	G
I got the	radio on and I'm just killing	time

Em	G
Working all day in my	daddy's garage

Em	Am
Driving all night chasing	some mirage

C	D7
Pretty soon little girl I'm go	nna take charge

Chorus

	G	C	G
The	dogs on Main Street howl `cause they	under	stand

	Em	C	G
If I could	take one	moment into my	hands

	C	G
Mister I ain't a boy, no	I'm a	man

	Em	C	G
And	I be	lieve 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...

	G	Em	C	G	Em	C
...Promised	Land, and	I be	lieve in the Promised	Land, and	I be	lieve

	G
in the Promised	Land.

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The River

By Bruce Springsteen

F#m	A	E	D
I come from down the	valley where	Mister when you're	young

	F#m	A	D	A
They	bring you up to	do just l	ike your daddy	done

	D	A	F#m
Me and	Mary we met in high school When	she was just	seventeen

	E	D
We'd	ride out of the valley down to	where the fields were green.

Chorus

	F#m	A	E	D
We'd go	down to the	river and	into the river we'd	dive

	F#m	A	E	D
Oh	down to the	river we'd	ride.

	F#m	A	E	D
Then	I got Mary	pregnant and	man that was all she	wrote

	F#m	A	D	A
And	for my nineteenth	birthday I got a union	card and a wedding	coat

D	A	E	F#m
We went down to the courthouse and the	judge put it	all to	rest

E	F#m	A	D
No wedding day smiles, no	walk down the isles No	flowers no wedding	dress

Chorus

	F#m	A	E	D
I	got a job working con	struction for the	Johnstown Com	pany

	F#m	A	D	A
But	lately there ain't been	much work on ac	count of the econo	my

	D
Now	all them things that seemed so important

	A	F#m
Well mister they	vanished right into the	air

	E	D
Now I	act like I don't remember and Mary	acts like she don't care

	F#m	A
But I	remember us riding in my bro	thers car

	E	D
Her body	tan and wet down by the	reservoir

	F#m	A	D
At	night on them banks I'd	lie awake and pull her	close just to feel

	A
every	breath she'd take

	D	A	F#m
Now those	memories come back to haunt me they	haunt me like a	curse

	E	D
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

	G	C	D	G
\|:	____	____	____	____:\|

	C	D	G
Hey there	mister, can you	tell me what happened to the	seeds I've

sown

	C	D	G
Can you give me a	reason sir	as to why they've	never grown

	C	G
They've just	blown around	from town to town

	D	G
Till they're	back out on these	fields

C	G
Where they fall	from my hand

	D	G
	Back into the dirt of	this hard land

	C	D
Now me and my	sister	from Germantown

	G
	We did ride

	C	D	G
We made our	bed sir	from the rock on the	mountainside

	C	G
We been	blowin' around	from town to town

	D	G
	Lookin' for a place to	stand

	C
Where the sun burst	through the cloud

	G
To	fall like a circle

	D	G
Like a	circle of fire down on	this hard land

	C	D
Now even the	rain it don't come	'round

	G
It don't come	'round here no more

	C	D
And the only	sound at night's the	wind

	G
Slammin' the	back porch door

	C	G
It just	stirs you up like it wants to	blow you down

	D	G
	Twistin' and churnin' up the	sand

	C	G
	Leavin' all them scarecrows	lyin' face down

	D	G
	Face down in the dirt of	this hard land

BREAK

	G	C	D	G
\|:	____	____	____	____:\|

	C	G	D	G
\|:	____	____	____	____:\|

	C
From a building	up on the hill

	D	G
I can	hear a tape deck blastin'	"Home on the Range"

	C
I can see them	Bar-M choppers

D	G
Sweepin' low a	cross the plains

	C	G
It's	me and you Frank we're	lookin' for lost cattle

	D	G
Our	hooves twistin' and churnin' up the	sand

	C	G
We're	ridin' in the whirlwind	searchin' for lost treasure

	D	G
	Way down south of the	Rio Grande

	C
We're	ridin' 'cross that river

	G
In the	moonlight

	D	G
	Up onto the banks of	this hard land

	C
Hey Frank won't ya	pack your bags

	D	G
And	meet me tonight down at	Liberty Hall

	C
Just one	kiss from you my brother

D	G
And we'll ride un	til we fall

	C
We'll	sleep in the fields

	G	D
We'll	sleep by the rivers and in the	morning

	G
We'll make a	plan

	C
Well if you can't	make it

	G
Stay hard, stay	hungry, stay alive

	D
If you	can

	G
And meet me in a dream of	this hard land

FADE OUT

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\|:	____	____	____	____:\|

	C	G	D	G
\|:	____	____	____	____:\|

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Thunder Road

Bruce Springsteen

	G	C
	Screen door slams, M	ary's d[G-D-G]ress waves

	Bm	C
Like a vision dancing a	cross the porch as the	radio plays

	D	G	C
Roy Orbison singing for the l	onely, hey	that's me and I want you	only

	G	D
Don't turn me home again, I jus	t can't face myself al	one 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

	G	D	G	C
	Ohh come t	ake my hand We're	ridin out tonight to c	ase the Promised Land

	G	Bm	C	D
	Oh Thu	nder Road, Oh	Thunder road, Oh	Thunder Road

	G	Bm
	Lyin' out there like a kil	ler in the dark

	G	C
	Hey I know it's late, we c	an make it if we run

	G	Bm	C	D	G
	Oh Th	under Road, sit	tight, take	hold, Thunder	Road

	C	D	G
So I	got this guitar and I lear	ned how to make it ta	lk

	Em	C	D
And my	car's out back if you're ready to take that l	ong w	alk

	C	D
From your fr	ont porch to my front s	eat

	Bm	Em
Door's	open but the ride ain't	free

	C	Am7	Am
Well	I know you've been [C-]waiting for w	ords that I ain't s	poken

	D	D+	D7
Well	tonight we'll be f	ree--all the pro[D-]mises will be b	roken

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

F	C	Bb	F	C
____	____	__	_	___

	F
Well it's Saturday	night

	C
You're all dressed up in	blue

	Bb
I been watching you a	while

	F	C
Maybe you been	watching me	too

	F
So somebody ran	out

	C
Left somebody's heart in a	mess

	Bb
Well if you're looking for	love

	F	C	F
Honey I'	m tougher	than the	rest

Some girls they want a handsome Dan

	C
Or some good-lookin'	Joe, on their arm

	Bb	F	C
Some	girls like a sweet-talkin'	Rome	o

	F
Well 'round here	baby

	C
I learned you get what you can	get

	Bb
So if you're rough enough for	love

	F	C	F
Honey I'	m tougher	than the	rest

	Bb
The road is [dm]dark

	F
And it's a thin thin	line

	Bb	C	F
But I want you to	know I'll walk it for you	any	time

	Bb
Maybe your other [dm]boyfriends

	F
Couldn't pass the	test

	Bb
Well if you're rough and ready for	love

	F	C	F
Honey I'	m tougher	than the	rest

SOLO

F	C	Bb	F	C
____	____	__	_	___

F	C	Bb	F	C	F
____	____	__	_	_	__

Well it ain't no secret

	C
I've been around a time or	two

	Bb	F	C
Well I don't know	baby maybe you've	been around	too

	F
Well there's another	dance

	C
All you gotta do is say	yes

	Bb
And if you're rough and ready for	love

	F	C	F
Honey I'	m tougher	than the	rest

	Bb
If you're rough enough for	love

	F	C	F
Baby I'	m tougher	than the	rest

FADE OUT

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Bruce Springsteen

Atlantic City

Bruce Springsteen

Because the Night

Words and Music by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith

Better Days

Bruce Springsteen

Bobby Jean

Bruce Springsteen

Born to run

Bruce Springsteen

Brilliant Disguise

Bruce Springsteen

Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips

Bruce Springsteen

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

Fire

Bruce Springsteen

Glory Days

Bruce Springsteen

Human Touch

Bruce Springsteen

Hungry Heart

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

If I Was The Priest

Bruce Springsteen

I'm on Fire

Bruce Springsteen

Man at the Top

Bruce Springsteen

Mansion on the Hill

Bruce Springsteen

Murder Incorporated

Bruce Springsteen

My Hometown

Bruce Springsteen

No Surrender

Bruce Springsteen

One Step Up

Bruce Springsteen

Point Blank

Bruce Springsteen

Pony Boy

traditional, arrangement and additional lyrics by Bruce Springsteen

Red Headed Woman

Bruce Springsteen

4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)

Bruce Springsteen

Seeds

Bruce Springsteen

Spirit in the Night

Bruce Springsteen

Streets Of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen

The Promised Land

Bruce Springsteen

The River

By Bruce Springsteen

This Hard Land

Bruce Springsteen

Thunder Road

Bruce Springsteen

Tougher Than the Rest

Bruce Springsteen