Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets (Ukulele)

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#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# # This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # # song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------# G Em 3x D C C D G C C D G D C D G Em 4x
    G                            Em
One soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends

          G                               Em
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in

         G                             Em
Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth

                 D                                  C
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in the heat, yeh

G             C
Hiding on the backstreets

G             C
Hiding on the backstreets

       G                Am            G   Em
With a love so hard and filled with defeat

                C                          G
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets
G Em 2x
     G                          Em
Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing

      G                                      Em
Where desperate lovers park, we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings

D                    C 
Huddled in our cars, waiting for the bells that ring

       Am                                  C             D
In the deep heart of the night they set us loose of everything

      G              C
To go running on the backstreets

G              C
Running on the backstreets

           G          Am      G   Em
Terry, you swore we'd live forever

C                                G
Taking it on them backstreets together
G Em 2x
A                       F#m
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag

      A                                    F#m
Where dancers scraped the tears up off the street, dressed down in rags

       A                             F#m  
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad, some really dying

   E                                            D
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying

A                                                    E
Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down

        A                                   D
You can blame it all on me, Terry, it don't matter to me now

         D                                    E                      
When the breakdown hit at midnight, there was nothing to say

      A                E                        F#m  
But I hated him, and I hated you when you went away

B7 D  B7 D7 D
Wa ah Wa Ah
G Em 4x
G                                       Em       
Laying here in the dark, you're like an angel on my chest

      G                             Em
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness

  D                            C
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see

          Am                               C                 D
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

    Em                                 Bm
And after all this time, to find we're just like all the rest

         C               C6           D
Stranded in the park and forced to confess

   G             C
To hiding on the backstreets

G             C
Hiding on the backstreets

         G        Am   G      Em
Where we swore forever friends

       C                     G
On the backstreets until the end
G Em 2x
              G
Hiding on the backstreets

              Em
Hiding on the backstreets

              G
Hiding on the backstreets

              Em
Hiding on the backstreets . . .

              C6
Hiding on the backstreets

              Am
Hiding on the backstreets

              G
Hiding on the backstreets

              C
Hiding on the backstreets

              G
Hiding on the backstreets

              C
Hiding on the backstreets . . .
G C C D
G D  G D    G
* courtesy of Bruce Springsteen Complete
** Alternate: Capo III G = E Em = C#m D = B C = A D7 = B7 Am = F#m A = G F#m = Em E = C Bm = G#m Set8 http://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/