Bruce - My Hometown guitar tab

Bruce Springsteen: "My Hometown" (from the album "Born in the USA")

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NOTE: Taken from the book Springsteen Complete.

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

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand

E/A A E/A A D A E

Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man

Esus E Esus E A D

I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town

E/A A E/A A D A E

He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around

Esus E Esus E A D

This is your hometown, this is your hometown

A E/A A D A E

This is your hometown, this is your hometown

Esus E Esus E A D E/A A

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

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores

F#m E/A A E/A A

Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more

F#m E/A A E/A A

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks

D E/A A E/A A

Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to

D A E

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

CHORD FORMATIONS:

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E/A x 0 2 1 0 0

A 0 0 2 2 2 0

Esus 0 2 2 2 0 0

E 0 2 2 1 0 0

D x 0 0 2 3 2

F#m 2 4 4 2 2 2 (Bar on 2nd fret)

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