Bruce Springsteen – Family Song (Guitar)

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Well, you know how when you're young

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There's such a distance between

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You and your family

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From the same point of view

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Papa wants a lawyer and

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Mama she wants an author

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And all you want is for them

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To want you

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Well, we had a lot of bad times

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Saw some real bad signs

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Othe East Coast

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California to bring us close

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Saw a lot of hard living and

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Some stone cold women on the East Coast

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And my papa turned away

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When I needed him the most

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Oh, so heavenly dressed

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Whoa, and the Pacific she's a woman

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The Lord he must have loved her best

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And I got a California rainbow

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To come give them thunder clouds

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A rest

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Oh, and the mountain is my friend now

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She put me to her test

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Well, now you know every father

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Has dreams and schemes for his own kid

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Oh, and dreaming ain't been declared

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No capital crime

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But I just hope when I grow up

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Ad have my own kids

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I'll love 'em all I can and

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Let 'em make their own minds

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And you know how a mother

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Can hold a son through understanding

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Well, my papa he once held me close

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By cryin

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And my mama's love it don't ever

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Leave me standing

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And my papa's love can only

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Leave me smiling

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Whoa, and my mama she's an angel

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You oughtta see her on Sunday

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Whoa, and my papa he's a good man

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You know he gives me and mama his best

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Whoa, she's a California rainbow

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Come to give my thunder clouds a rest

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And my family is my friend now

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Ah, California put us through her test

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