Bobby Bare – Brooklyn Bridge (Guitar)

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As recorded by Bobby Bare (From the 1963 Album DETROIT CITY AND OTHER HITS) [Intro] E A B7 E [Verse 1]
E                        A
Oh, there I stood in the great big city

          B7                        E
Where the buildings're tall and the girls're all pretty

                         A
Up stepped a man he said come here son

  N.C.                                  B7
I got a big deal now if you got the mon'

A
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge

B7                                 E                      B7
Two dollars, two cigarettes and an autograph picture of Elvis
[Verse 2]
        E                    A
Well, I kept my bridge for a day or so

    B7                  E
But then my money was a runnin' low

               A
And I tried to make me a sale

        N.C.                                B7
But the man done come and he took me to jail

A               B7
Said I's crazy, laughed at

                 E                      B7
Told me that a society frowned upon them
[Verse 3]
              E                A
Well, then he stood me up in a front of a judge

  B7                             E
I stood there a grinnin' but the judge didn't budge

                      A
He said 30 dollars or 30 days

    N.C.                               B7
And I looked at him and all I could say

A                            B7
Was all that take 30 dollars, couldn't make that 35 could you

E                              B7
Spend all my money on that bridge
[Verse 4]
            E          A
Well, after 90 days in that man's jail

B7                E
I still tryin' to make me a sale

                    A
Met some cat called Skid Row Pete

     N.C.                         B7 A
So I traded it off for 52nd Street

          B7
Big deal, oh big man of action

  E              B7
A big transaction
[Verse 5]
          E                           A
I bet the folks back home could never realize

     B7             E
That in a great big town this size

                      A
Boy like theirs could own the street

B7 N.C.                              B7 A
Spend his days just to keepin' it neat
[Outro]
                           B7           E
Pickin' up cigarette butts, wine bottles

E
Terrorizing the pedestrians, hoo them pigeons

E
I bet old Skid Row Pete ain't got no pigeons

E
On the Brooklyn Bridge...