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My Hometown
Bruce Springsteen
Intro: / G - - - / - - - - / C - G - / D - - - /
/ D - - - / - - - - / G - D - / C - - - /
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
D (2) G (1/2) D (1/2) C
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
G (2)
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and
C (1/2) G (1/2) D
steer as we drove through town
D (2) G (1/2) D (1/2) C
He'd tousle my hair and he'd say son take a good look around
Chorus:
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
This is your hometown, your home town
D (2) G (1/2) D (1/2) C
This is your hometown, your home town, this is your home town
/ G - - - / - - - - /
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
In '65 tension was running high at my high school
D (2)
There was a lot of fights between the black and white there was
G (1/2) D (1/2) C
nothing you could do
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat was a gun
D (2) G (1/2) D (1/2) C
Words were passed a shotgun blast troubled times had come
Chorus 2:
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
To my hometown, my home town
D (2) G (1/2) D (1/2) C
My hometown, my home town
/ G - - - / - - - - /
Bridge:
Em (2) G (2)
Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Em (2) G (2)
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
C (2) G (2)
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
C (2) G D
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to
Chorus 3:
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
To your hometown, your home town,
D (2) G (1/2) D (1/2) C
your hometown, your home town
/ G - - - / - - - - /
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
D (2) G (1/2) D (1/2) C
Packing up our bags maybe head - ing south
G (2) C (1/2) G (1/2) D
I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
D (2)
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said
G (1/2) D (1/2) C (2)
son take a good look around
/ G - - - / - - - - / C - G - / D - - - /
This is your hometown
/ D - - - / - - - - / G - D - / C - - - /
/ G - - - / - - - - / C - G - / D - - - /
/ D - - - / - - - - / G - D - / C - - - /
End on G
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
