My Hometown
Bruce Springsteen

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             E (022100@1)   A (x02220@1)    A (x02220@1)       E (022100@1)   A (x02220@1)   A (x02220@1)      D (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)       EI (022100@1)was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Esus (022200@1)   E (022100@1)   E (022100@1)       Esus (022200@1)        E (022100@1)
        A (x02220@1)  E (022100@1)  DInto (xx0232@1)the bus stop to picks up a paper for my old man
     E (022100@1)      A (x02220@1) A (x02220@1)            E (022100@1)   A (x02220@1) 
             D (xx0232@1)               A (x02220@1)                 EI'd (022100@1)sit on his lap in that  big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
         Esus (022200@1) E (022100@1)  E (022100@1)  Esus (022200@1)name="chord_022100@1">E     
   A (x02220@1)            E (022100@1)             DHe'd (xx0232@1)tousle my hair and  he'd say son take a good look around
                     A (x02220@1)                         D (xx0232@1)    A (x02220@1)   
 EThis (022100@1)is your hometown, this is your home town
            Esus (022200@1)E (022100@1)    E (022100@1)     Esus (022200@1)E (022100@1)  
  E (022100@1)                 A (x02220@1)   E (022100@1)      D (xx0232@1)       AThis (x02220@1)is your hometown,  your hometown , this is your home town

Verse 2:
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        D (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)    EIn (022100@1)65    tension was running high at my high school
Esus (022200@1)          E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)       Esus (022200@1)        E (022100@1)          EThere (022100@1)was a lot of fights between the black and white
                    A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1)             DThere (xx0232@1)was nothing you could do
E (022100@1)    A (x02220@1)         A (x02220@1)   E (022100@1)   A (x02220@1)          
A (x02220@1)               D (xx0232@1)            A (x02220@1)    ETwo (022100@1)cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat was a gun
Esus (022200@1)   E (022100@1)   E (022100@1)     Esus (022200@1) E (022100@1)       EWords (022100@1)were passed  a    shotgun blast
                A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1)  D (xx0232@1)                    ATroubled (x02220@1)times had come . to my hometown
D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)     E (022100@1)   Esus (022200@1)E (022100@1)     E (022100@1) Esus (022200@1)E (022100@1)  E (022100@1)      A (x02220@1)   E (022100@1)      
        AMy (x02220@1)hometown, my hometown, my hometown,  my hometown

Chorus:
         F#m (244222@1)                                                          ANow (x02220@1)Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
                           F#m (244222@1)                                      ASeems (x02220@1)like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
             D (xx0232@1)                                           AThey're (x02220@1)closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
               D (xx0232@1)                                                    
                        EForeman (022100@1)says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to

E (022100@1)     A (x02220@1)    A (x02220@1)     E (022100@1)     A (x02220@1)   
       D (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)    E (022100@1)     Esus (022200@1)E (022100@1)   E (022100@1)     Esus (022200@1)E (022100@1)   EYour (022100@1)hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown
A (x02220@1)    E (022100@1)    Dyour (xx0232@1)hometown
Verse 3:
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

T.Teates/ Las Vegas 06