Bruce Springsteen – Brothers Under The Bridge (Guitar)

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This is in my mind a great song. It's pretty much D all the way, exept for a few parts. Intro: D
D
Saigon, it was all gone

     G
The same Coke machines

          D
As the streets I grew on
Down in a mesquite canyon We come walking along the ridge
             G      Bm  A         D
Me and the brothers under the bridge

   D
Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town

                           G
Up here there's too much brush and canyon

                     D
For the CHP choppers to touch down
Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live
              G     Bm  A        D
Me and the brothers under the bridge

  D
Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light

        G
Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night

     D
We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge

              G     Bm  A        D
Me and the brothers under the bridge

      Bm                     G
Had enough of town and the street life

        D                             A
Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife

             D
Now I don't want no trouble
And I ain't got none to give
              G     Bm  A        D
Me and the brothers under the bridge

    D
I come home in '72

                   G
You were just a beautiul light

                      D
In your mama's dark eyes of blue
I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid
              G     Bm  A       D
Me and the brothers under the bridge

        D
Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues

               G
I held your mother's hand

                                 D
When they passed with the red, white and blue
One minute your'e out there And something slips Outro: G Bm A D