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To: backstreets@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu, jamesb@nevada.edu
Subject: CRD: My Hometown (Springsteen)


Bruce Springsteen

MY HOMETOWN  (from the album "Born in the USA")
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NOTE:  Taken from the book Springsteen Complete.

INTRO:  E/AA     E/AA     D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1)E (022100@1)EsusE    EsusE    A (x02220@1)  D (xx0232@1)I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
      E/A (002100@1) A (x02220@1)	  E/AA		 D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)   E (022100@1)Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
         EsusE          EsusE	   	 AD

I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
    E/A (002100@1) A (x02220@1)	   E/AA 	     D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)           E (022100@1)He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
     EsusE             EsusE	       A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1)This is your hometown, 		this is your hometown
        A (x02220@1)E/AA           D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1) E (022100@1)This is your hometown, 		this is your hometown
        EsusE          EsusE          A (x02220@1)      D (xx0232@1)   E/A (002100@1)A (x02220@1)
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 (244222@1)			  E/AA           E/A (002100@1)A (x02220@1)Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
      F#m (244222@1)		    E/A (002100@1)A (x02220@1) E/A (002100@1)A (x02220@1)They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
        D (xx0232@1)	       E/A (002100@1)     A (x02220@1)        E/A (002100@1)A (x02220@1)Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to
        D (xx0232@1)		   A (x02220@1)     E (022100@1)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 (002100@1) x 0 2 1 0 0
A (x02220@1)   0 0 2 2 2 0
Esus (022200@1)0 2 2 2 0 0
E (022100@1)   0 2 2 1 0 0
D (xx0232@1)   x 0 0 2 3 2
F#m   2 4 4 2 2 2  (Bar on 2nd fret)