Bruce Springsteen – Straight Time (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(3)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
(I Play Tons Of Hammer Ons all throughout the song)
[Verse 1]
D Got out of prison back in '86 and I found a wife G Walked the clean and narrow D Just trying to stay out and stay alive
Got a job at the rendering plant, it isn't going to make me rich
G In the darkness before dinner comes D Sometimes I can feel the itch
[Chorus]
A G I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line D I'm sick of doing straight time
[Verse 2]
D
My uncle's at the evening tableMakes his living running hot cars
G Slips me a hundred dollar bill says D "Charlie you best remember who your friends are"
[Chorus]
A G I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line D I'm sick of doing straight time
[Bridge]
G D Eight years in it feels like you're going to die G You get used to anything D Sooner or later it just becomes your life
[Verse 3]
D Kitchen floor in the evening tossing my little babies high G D Mary's smiling but she's watching me out of the corner of her eye
Seems you can't get any more than half free
G D I step out onto the front porch and suck the cold air deep inside of me
[Chorus]
A G I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line D I'm sick of doing straight time
[Bridge]
G D In the basement hunting gun and a hacksaw G D Sip a beer and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor
[Outro]
D Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands G Lay my head down on the pillow and D Go drifting off into foreign lands