Darlington County  

Bruce Springsteen

 

Intro: G    C G      C G 

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G                                    C     G                                        C             G

Driving into Darlington County , me and Wayne on the Fourth of July

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Driving into Darlington County lookin' for some work on the county line

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We drove down from New York City where the girls are pretty but they just wanna know your name

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Driving into Darlington City; got a union connection with an uncle of Wayne's

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We drove eight hundred miles without seeing a cop, we got rock'n'roll music blasting off the t-top

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Singing sha-la la, sha la la la la la                 sha-la la la la la la

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sha-la la, sha-la la la la la                             sha-la la la la la la

 

Hey little girl, standing on the corner, today's your lucky day for shure, all right

Me and my buddy, we're from New York City, we got two hundred dollars, we want to rock all night

Girl, you're lookin' at two big spenders, why, the world don't know what me and Wayne might do.

Our pa's each own one of the World Trade Centers, for a kiss and a smile I'll give mine all to you

C'mon baby, take a seat on the fender, it's a long night, tell me, what else were you gonna do?

Just me and you, we could ...

   

Little girl, sittin' in the window ain't seen my buddy in seven days

County man tells me the same thing he don't work, and he don't get paid

Little girl, you're so young and pretty, walk with me and you can have your way

Then we'll leave this Darlington City for a ride down that Dixie Highway

Driving out of Darlington County I seen the glory of the comin' of the Lord.

Driving out of Darlington County seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford.

Sha-la la la la la la la       sha-la-la-la-la-la-la

Sha-la la la la la la        Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la


Does this bus stop at 82nd street?

Bruce Springsteen

 

G           C        G          C         G         Bm                C          G

Hey bus driver keep the change, bless your children, give them names

D           Am                D           Am     Em                                            C

Don't trust men who walk with canes, drink this and you'll grow wings on your feet

G              C        G        C         G        Bm           C           G

Broadway Mary, Joan Fontaine, advertiser on a downtown train

D        Am              D       Am        Em            C

Chistmas crier bustin' cane, he's in love again

 

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Where dock worker's dreams mix with panther's schemes to someday own the rodeo

Em                        C                                    G                                  C    D

Tainted women in Vistavision permorm for out-of-state kids at the late show

 

Wizard imps and swat sock pimps interstellar mongrel nymphs

Rex said that lady left him limp. Love's like that

Queen of diamonds, ace of spades newly discovered lovers of the everglades

Take out a full page ad in the trades to announce their arrival

And Mary Lou she found out how to cope, she rides to heaven on a gyroscope

The Daily News asks her for the dope, she says: "Man, the dope's that there's still hope"

 

Senorita, Spanish rose, wipes her eyes and blows her nose

Uptown in Harlen she throws a rose to some lucky young matador

 

 

 


 

Downbound Train

Bruce Springsteen

 

intro:            F#m                 A                      E          E4

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I had a job, I had a girl, I had something goin', mister, in this world

I got laid off down at the lumber yard, Our love went bad, times got hard

              D                          E                                             F#m

Now I work down at the carwash, where all it ever does is rain

                 D                        E              F#m               E

Don’t you feel like you’re a rider on a Downbound train

 

She just say “Joe I gotta go, we had it once we ain’t got it anymore”

She packed her back, left me behind she bought a ticket on the Central Line

Night as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining, I feel her kiss in the misty rain

And I feel like I’m a rider on a Downbound train.

 

Last night I heard your voice, You were cryin’, cryin’, You were so alone

You said your love had never died, You were waiting for me at home

Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods, I ran till I though my chest would explode

There in the clearing, beyond the highway, in the moonlight our wedding house shone

I rushed through the yard I burst through the front door, My head pounding hard

Up the stairs I climbed, the room was dark, our bed was empty then I heard that long whistle whine

           D                                                           A

And I dropped to my knees hung my head and cried

 

Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroadgang knocking down them cross ties; working in the rain

Now don’t it feel like you’re a rider on a Downbound train.

 

For You

Bruce Springsteen

 

F                         Am Bb          C                Dm

Princess cards she sends me with her regards

     Gm                       Dm      Bb                            C

oh bar-room eyes shine vacancy  to see her you gotta look hard

Wounded deep in battle  I stand like some soldier undaunted

             Gm                    Dm                       Bb          C            Bb   Am   Gm

To her Chesire smile I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted

Gm7    Bb                C                         F                     Am

But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts

            Bb               C           F         Am

Honey get your carpet baggers off my back

                      Bb                 C               F         Am

You wouldnt even give me time to cover my tracks

              F                                       C

You said "Here's your mirror, and your ball and jacks"

          F                                       C                 F                               C

But they’re not what I came for, and I’m sure you see that too

                Dm       Am   Gm7       Bb

I came for you for you I came for you

C           Dm

But you did not need my urgency

I came for you for you  I came for you

But your life was one long emergeny

                Bb                 F                  Bb                          F   C

And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free

 

Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak,

reveal yourself all now to me girl, while you’ve got the strenght to speak

Cause they’re waiting for youat Bellevue with their oxygen masks,

But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask,

And don’t call for your surgeon even he says it’s too late

It’s not your lungs this time, it’s your heart that holds your fate

Don’t give me my money, honey, I don’t want it back

You and your pony face and your Union Jack

Well take your local jocker and teach him how to act

I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked

Didn’t you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive

Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?

And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive

You could laugh and cry in a single sound.

F               C                                          Bb                       F

And your strenght is devastating in the face of all these odds

           C                                                              Bb                        C

Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god?

 

 

 

F                              Am                            Bb                C                 Dm

You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach

       Gm                                   Dm                          Bb                      C        

Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach

And the band played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek

Gm                          Dm                     Bb                          C       Bb  Am  Gm

That ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leech.

             Bb              C                                       F                Am

But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way

like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way

                 F                                                    C

We were both hitchhickers but you had your ear tuned to the roar

of some metal tempered angel on an alien, distant shore

So you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for

and it’s not that nursery mouth I came back for,

It’s not the way you’re stretched out on the floor

Cause I’ve brocken all your windows and I’ve rammed through all your doors

And who am I to ask you to lick my sores?

And you sould know that’s true.....

                Dm       Am   Gm7       Bb

I came for you for you I came for you

C           Dm

But you did not need my urgency

I came for you for you  I came for you

But your life was one long emergeny

                Bb                 F                  Bb                          F  

And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free

 

F                  Dm   C     Bb      C

Dm  C     Bb      C      Dm          Am               Gm         Bb
Glory Days

Bruce Springsteen

 

Intro: A A A6 A   D D D6 D

 

A                                D             A                D

I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school

A                          D                         A                              D

He could throw that speed ball by you, make you look like a fool boy

E                                                                         D

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

             E                                                              D                     E

We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all he kept talkin' about 

         A                           D                                A                         D                                 A            E         A

Glory Days, well they'll pass you by, Glory Days, in the wink of a young girls eye Glory Days, Glory Days.

 

There’s a girl that lives up the block back in the school she can 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 starts laughing thinking about

Glory Days, well they'll pass you by, Glory Days, in the wink of a young girls eye Glory Days, Glory Days.

 

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Think I’m goig down to the well tonight and I’m going to drink till 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 recapture a little of the glory of,

but time slips away and leaves you with nothing , Mister, but boring stories of

Glory days…


Growin’up

Bruce Springsteen

 

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            F                C           G     C     F                     C          G   C

Well, I stood stonelike at midnight suspended in my masquerade

And I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade

I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch

   F                 C                    G        C                      F           C    G         C         F  C

I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched

   G                                                                               F                                 Am

I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said "Sit down" I stood up

F       G    F        C     G    C

Ooh-ooh growin' up

 

The flag of piracy flew from my mast my sails were set wing to wing

I had a jukebox graduate for first mate she couldn't sail but she sure could sing

I pushed B-52 and bombed `em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on standing

I broke all the rules strafed my old high school never once gave thought to landing

I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Come down'I threw up

Ooh-ooh growin' up

 

F    C    G    C

F    C    G    C

F    C    G    C

Dm              F    G

 

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I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it's really hard to hold your breath

I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared I was the cosmic kid

Well my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little place in the stars

I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car

I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Sit down'I stood up

F       G     Am            G

Ooh-ooh growin' up

F       G     F       C    G   C

Ooh-ooh growin' up

 

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Highway Patrolman

Bruce Springsteen

 

  D                                G                    D

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state

                                                                            A

I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number eight

 D                                       G                   D

I always done an honest job as honest as I could

                                  A                                    D

I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good

Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down

I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble downtown

Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away

But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way

G                                                  D

Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'

           G                                      D

Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

             G                            D

Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

                                         A

Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

D                                          G                      D

I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would

                                          A                                 D

Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

 

Well Frankie went in the army back in 1965

I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife

But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed

Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job

 

Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin', nothin' feels better than blood on blood

Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line

Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine

 

Well the night was like any other, I got a call `bout quarter to nine

There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line

There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head

There was a girl cry'n' at a table and it was Frank, they said

Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights

Well I musta done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night

It was out at the crossroads, down `round Willow bank

Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank

Well I chased him through them county roads

Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here"

I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear

 


Hungry Heart

Bruce Springsteen

 

Intro:  C Am7 Dm7 G7sus

 

C                                 Am7

Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack

            Dm7                      G7sus

I went out for a ride and I never went back

Like a river that don't know where it's flowing

I took a wrong turn and I just kept going

C                          Am7

Everybody's got a hungry heart

Dm7                      G7sus

Everybody's got a hungry heart

C                                               Am7

Lay down your money and you play your part

Dm7                      G7sus

Everybody's got a huh-uh-un-gry heart

 

I met her in a Kingstown bar

We fell in love I knew it had to end

We took what we had and we ripped it apart

Now here I am down in Kingstown again

 

Everybody's got a hungry heart

Everybody's got a hungry heart

Lay down your money and you play your part

Everybody's got a huh-uh-un-gry heart

 

Solo:  Eb  Cm7  Fm7  Ab/Bb  Eb  Cm7  Fm7  G7sus

 

Everybody needs a place to rest

Everybody wants to have a home

Don't make no difference what nobody says

Ain't nobody like to be alone

 

Everybody's got a hungry heart...

 


I Wanna Marry You

Bruce Springsteen

 

Intro: D          G           A7         G             A7       

 

 D                                    G

 I see you walking, baby, down the street

A                                        D

 Pushing that baby carriage at your feet

G                                   A

 I see that lonely ribbon in your hair

              A7                                       D

Tell me am I the man for whom you put it there?

 

You never smile girl, you never speak

You just walk on by, darlin' week after week

Raising two kids alone in this mixed up world

Must be a lonely life for a working girl

 

D                             G

 Little girl I wanna marry you

             A                          D

Oh yeah little girl I wanna marry you

         G             A                D

Yes I do, little girl I wanna marry you

 

Now honey, I don’t wanna clip your wings

But a times come when two people should think of these things

Havin’ a home and a family,

Facin’ up to their responsabilities.

They said in the end true love prevails

But in the end true love can’t be some fairy tale.

To say i’ll make your dream come true would be wrong

But maybe darling I could help them along.

Little girl I wanna marry you

Oh yeah, little girl I wanna marry you,

Yes I do! Little girl I wanna marry you

 

G                                  A

 My daddy said right before he died

         F#m                      Bm

That true true love was just a lie

G                                    A

 He went to his grave a broken heart

   G                                 A

An unfulfilled life, girl, makes a man hard

Oh darlin'

 

There’s something happy and there’s something sad

‘Bout wanting somebody, oh, so bad

I wear my love darling, without shame

I’d be proud if you would wear my name

 

D     G     A7     D

 


I wish I were blind 

Bruce Springsteen

 

               G                                                   C

I love to see the cottonwood blossom in the early spring

               D                                               G

I love to see the message of love that the bluebird brings

                 C            D                       G          G/B        Em

But when I see you walkin' with him down along the strand

                       C                 D                         G

I wish I were blind when I see you with your man

 

I love to see your hair shining in the long summer's light

I love to watch  the stars fill the sky on a summer night

The music plays you take his hand I watch how you touch him as you start to dance

And I wish I were blind when I see you with your man

 

Single pick: G    A    B

 

C                              D         G

We struggle here but all our love's in vain

                C                                                  D               G                C     G   C

Oh these eyes that once filled me with your beauty now fill me with pain

                                     D                   G                   G/B  Em

And the light that once entered here is banished from me

               C                                   D

And this darkness is all baby that my heart sees

                          C                                 D                        G             G/B   Em

And though this world is filled with the grace and beauty of God's hand

                           C                  D                          G

Oh I wish I were blind when I see you with your man

 

Solo:   G    C      D     G     C     D   G   G/B   Em    C   D   G

Single pick:  G  A  B

 

We struggle here but all our love's in vain

Oh these eyes that once filled me with your beauty now fill me with pain

And the light that once entered here is banished from me

And this darkness is all baby that my heart sees

And though this world is filled with the grace and beauty of God's hand

Oh I wish I were blind when I see you with your man

Oh I wish I were blind when I see you with your man.

 

 

 


If I should fall behind

 Bruce Springsteen

 

Capo:  3th fret

 

C        C9

We said we'd walk together baby come what may

                                                                  Am     A9

That come the twilight should we lose our way

                 F  F9                                C  C9

If as we're walkin a hand should slip free

                   Am                    F                             C

I'll wait for you and should I fall behind wait for me

 

We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side

We'd help each other stay in stride

But each lover's steps fall so differently

But I'll wait for you and if I should fall behind wait for me

 

                         F     F9                               C   C9

Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true

                    F                                         Am   A9

But you and I know what this world can do

                                     F   F9                             C  C9

So let's make our steps clear that the other may see

                          Am                    F                           C   C9     

And I'll wait for you, if I should fall behind wait for me

 

Solo:  C   C9        Am   A9        F   F9       C   C9       Am     F      C

 

Now there's a beautiful river in the valley ahead

There 'neath the oak's bough soon we will be wed

Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees

I'll wait for you  And should I fall behind wait for me

Darlin' I'll wait for you  Should I fall behind wait for me