Bruce Springsteen – The New Timer (Guitar)

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SONG: THE NEW TIMER ARTIST: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ALBUM: THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected] INTRO:

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VERSE:

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He rode the rails since the Great Depression

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Fifty years out on the skids

He said "You don't cross nobody

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You'll be all right out here kid."

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Left my family in Pennsylvania

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Searchin' for work I hit the road

I met Frank in East Texas

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In a freight yard blown through with snow

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From Mexico to Colorado

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California to the sea

Frank he showed me the ropes sir

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Just till I could get back on my feet

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I hoed sugar beets outside of Firebaugh

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I picked the peaches from the Marysville trees

They bunked us in a barn just like animals

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Me and a hundred others just like me

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VERSE:

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We split up come the springtime

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I never seen Frank again

'Cept one rainy night he blew by me on a grainer

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Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and wind

VERSE:

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They found him shot dead outside of Stockton

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His body lyin' on a muddy hill

Nothin' taken, nothin' stolen

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Somebody killin' just to kill

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BREAK:

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Late that summer I was rollin' through the plains of Texas

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A vision passed before my eyes

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A small house sittin' trackside

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With the glow of the savior's beautiful light

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A woman stood cookin' in the kitchen

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Kid sat at a table with his old man

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Now I wonder does my son miss me

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Does he wonder where I am

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VERSE:

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Tonight I pick my campsite carefully

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Outside the Sacramento yard

Gather some wood and light a fire

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In the early winter dark

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Wind whistling cold I pull my coat around me

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Heat some coffee and stare out into the black night

I lie awake I lie awake sir

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With my machete by my side

VERSE: My Jesus your gracious love and mercy

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Tonight I'm sorry could not fill

My heart Like one good rifle

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And the name of who I ought to kill